Former managing director of Monotype Typography Ren Kerfante is to visit New Zealand's Printing Museum in Wellington this month and address members.

Kerfante, who worked with iconic type designers including Adrian Frutiger,Hermann Zapf and Matthew Carter is calling in on the New Zealand capital during a cruise, and will talk about the transition "from metal to photo to digital to computer typesetting" and his role in the production typefaces for these technologies.

The visit is planned for February 27, with a lunch in central Wellington - at which members and their guests will be given priority - yet to be arranged.

Details from info@theprintingmuseum.org.nz or by phone to 04 475-9909.

Kerfante was appointed managing director of Monotype Typography in 1992, after the parent Monotype Corporation - established in 1897 - went into receivership. The company's flagship product has been a typesetting system which cast hot-metal type letter by letter. He lives in Surrey, UK, not far from the original works in Salfords.

The Printing Museum has added a bound collection of more than 250 issues of the The Monotype Recorder to its collection which includes an 1852 Harrild Albion from the Evening Post, plus large Linotype and Monotype matrix collections, Wharfedales and Furnivals.

Other items included in the gift from a vendor in Suffolk, UK, are Monotype newsletters and other literature. The collection - beginning with several copies of Volume I, No. 1 -is believed to be one of the most complete extant, with another believed to be in the University of Amsterdam. It came from the library of the Monotype Corporation, and was passed to Kerfante with the management buyout of Monotype Typography.

The collection has been indexed and the museum plans to make it available on its website.