Printing photos on Flickr

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Printing by H. Scofield

3D printed action figure by Nick Normal

Printing by Kirsty Wallace

Sabáh spa by El Calotipo Design & Printing Studio

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Packaging recycled cardboard boxes with cards. Screenprinting and letterpress.

Packaging design and production: www.elcalotipo.com

Graphic Design: Ana de Sus

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Cajas de cartón reciclado con tarjetón interior. Estampación serigráfica y letterpress.

Diseño de packaging y producción: www.elcalotipo.com

Diseño gráfico: Ana de sus

Printing the model appartment floors designed by our Arkwright Scholars in the Dimension Elite by Tim Regan

Gas Can Printing Machine,Screen Printing Machine by benny zheng

Gas Can Printing Machine,Screen Printing Machine

Printing Press # 5 by Myles Kleinfeld

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I may have a Shapeways addiction! by Rain Rabbit

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..boxes mounting up from my 3D printing escapades!

Hermes-Grotesk by Jens Jørgen Hansen

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Hermes-Grotesk from Wilhelm Woellmers Schriftgießerei, Berlin SW.

Issued in 1911.

The specimen book is from Egmont H. Petersens Kgl. Hof-Bogtrykkeri, Copenhagen, appoximately1925.

Printing by ILO Asia-Pacific

A worker makes sure that a brochure is properly folded at a printing factory in Viet Nam. © ILO/Brenda Paik Sunoo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US.

Printing plate depicting two children by Edinburgh City of Print

Wooden printing block with metal printing plate depicting two children

Accession Number: HH4748/12/88

Plates are the illustrations separately printed and inserted into a book once it is bound. The copper plate is the master surface from which printing is done.

Used at Holmes McDougall, Edinburgh. Holmes McDougall were educational publishers based at 137 - 141 Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org

An unidentified 48 pkt “Didone” of brass. by Jens Jørgen Hansen

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A quick specimen

Printing the model appartment floors designed by our Arkwright Scholars in the Dimension Elite by Tim Regan

my favorite drypoint print by Nom

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Just started to get the hang of not burnishing off all of the ink to get some colour and tonal variations going.... and then the session finished. I SHALL PERSEVERE ANOTHER TIME.

Drypoint etching using Rhenalon plate and stay-open oil based inks (hand-mixed). Print on 280gsm white cartridge paper.

Gutenberg's Printing Press by Anna-Lutha

Kickstarter Wood Crafts by J.L.

Printing machines by Neon Tommy

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Six units of Goss Colorliner presses print up to 96-page newspapers at a rate of up to 70,000 newspapers an hour.

printing (18) by linploy

Planeta Printing Press by Erik Desmyter

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Planeta Printing Press at the Press Museum in Istanbul

Cutting Printed Labels by Edinburgh City of Print

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Cutting printed labels at Smith & Ritchie on a J Greig & Sons Machine

GREIG,(David and John) were printing machine manufacturers. They were founded in Lothian Road where they operated between 1844 and 1861. In 1862 they were listed at the Fountainhall Works, 96 Fountainbridge where they stayed until 1885. 1886-20th Century the Edinburgh Directory lists them at Fountainhouse Works 28-30 Dundee Street, Edinburgh.

Further Notes: Original artwork created by Smith & Ritchie. Smith and Ritchie were established in Edinburgh in 1853. The firm were multi colour offset printers who were specialist suppliers to the food packaging industry. They were located at Amphion Works in Albert Street. In 1963 Smith & Ritchie became the first printing company in Scotland to use a gravure press and produced reel fed work up to five colours. Smith & Ritchie moved to Livingston in 1986 and in 1991 became the first printing firm in Scotland to use a 10 station gravure press.

Smith & Ritchie have subsequently moved out to Livingston and survive today as Amcor Flexibles S & R. Amcor are originally an Australian company and now have operations in 36 countries around the world specialising in many printed products of which the food packaging that Amcor Flexibles S & R is one.

History: Smith & Ritchie were located at 71 Albert Street, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org

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Pop screen-printing by Gabriel Rojas

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SR2 by Tony Martin

Gedsc digital camera

...careful...

Book. Five Hundred Years of Printing by Edinburgh City of Print

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Description: Book. Five Hundred Years of Printing by S H Steinberg. A Pelican Book. The story of the relation between printing and civilisation, the interdependence of printers, publishers, and the publics, topics such as censorship and best-sellers.

Accession Number: SH.2009.303.6

History: George Kay taught typography at Heriot Watt College, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org

For Printing by Martin Choi

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For Printing

SR5 by Tony Martin

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...rumble...

Screen printing screen by Philipp