In the mid 60's I was a cadet on a passenger/cargo ship running from Europe to South Africa & Mozambique. We only had type-writers. Each evening the 'Writer' had the job of typing out the next days menu. The date was printed out in gold. I can remember watching as each of probably 12 copies were typed out and then the writer would overlay the freshly typed date text with gold leaf. I don't know if the type-writer had special 'sized' ink ribbon to allow the gold leaf to adhere, too long in the tooth now to remember now.