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my jobs printing. this is during downtime between proofs and my little window into the press floor. i love the smell of the presses. this glass barrier robs me of this simple pleasure.
this is me with the last handset letterpress used to produce a paper in the united states. it stopped producing a local newspaper about a month ago.
Each of the three Long Island hospitals had their own printing presses and produced newspapers on site.
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Europe around 1440. The German blacksmith and goldsmith, turned printer and publisher, introduced mechanical movable type printing, resulting in an altered societal structure in Renaissance Europe.
Sources:
Eisenstein, E (1979) ‘Defining the initial shift: some features of print culture’ in The Printing Press as an Agent of Change Vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 43-163
By Brett Osteen (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
He first attempted his idea in 1803 when he began trials of his idea for a press which involved the raising and lowering of the platern, back and forth movement of the bed and the inking by a series of rollers all to be controlled by gear wheels. This was all to be fueled by steam power, requiring significantly less human intervention compared to earlier technologies.
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The mission was established by a French missionary society. They printed and bound extracts from the Bible in Maori.
We moved into our new workshop at the start of 2022. We’ve added some more type to it now, but it’s nice to look back a year later!