Letterpress is a medium of endless possibilities. This course will start with the basics: ink, rollers, type, paper and a press, and introduce the setting of type, locking up a form and using spacing ...

Writing has existed since the 4th Century BC. However, its evolution beyond a basic counting method into a structured language was the preserve of religious institutions and the ruling elite. Books ...

Everyone who was born without a smartphone in their crib knows how a printing press works… in theory. You line up the type, ink up the slate, slap a piece of paper on, and then press down to print.

When the Olde Yakima Letterpress Museum moved to the Central Washington Agriculture Museum about three years ago, it meant more visibility for the nonprofit institution than it had experienced in its ...

The opening of a new state-of-the-art printing facility in Spokane Valley is the culmination of 581 years of printing technology, going back to Johannes Gutenberg, who developed the first real ...

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If they still teach European history in America’s public schools, chances are that schoolchildren have some notion that the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century depended on the 15th-century ...

TWO RIVERS – The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will host another round of Really Big Prints! — a biennial, multi-day, large-scale relief printmaking event. This free special event gives ...

PORTUGUESE are said to have brought the earliest printing press to the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In 1550, a Portuguese ship brought printing machinery to a port in Malabar, Southwest India. No matter how ...

Hudson Printing of Salt Lake City, the high-quality commercial printing operation known for superior color reproduction, is now home to a new Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press. Installation is in ...

Hudson Printing, the Salt Lake City printing company renowned for world-class print reproduction of the highest quality; and Landa Digital Printing, which liberates printers from barriers inherent to ...