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this shot was taken when I was in study trip with my school about printing press

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day 6

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.

print production line

Reconstruction of an underground printing press, Warsaw Uprising Museum, July 2015.

Wallie working it.

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Clean me! A printing press that needs a good clean up!

After 2 weeks of installation, the machine is finally put together........now the electrical begins.

Notts

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

RJS01614 old printing press at the medieval Bled Castle built on a cliff face overlooking lake Bled and the city of Bled in Slovenia

Was the inventor who made a press of lower and upper case letter, which made it faster to print.

2012

Whereas European publishing required these huge machines, a massive upfront start-up cost, Japanese printing had minimal start-up costs, allowing publishing to proliferate in a way it never did in Europe.

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!

Lovely details.

robert smail's printing works, you can read more in my blog

the rollers in the printing press

Photographed in The Writers' Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.

See sign at this link: flic.kr/p/zUZmNX