This article was originally published with the title “Machines for Composing Letterpress Printing Surfaces” in SA Supplements Vol. 41 No. 1066supp (June 1896), p. 17032 doi:10.1038 ...

Its operations have since been overtaken by modern printing technologies but a number of the letterpress machines it owned, said to be among the oldest in the world, are exhibited at The Royal Press ...

Students print a proof of the Latin phrase for Rest in Peace during a letterpress printing class project in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012.

The machines and the art are rare, but a San Antonio store is pressing on SAN ANTONIO – Letterpress began in the 1400ss and was the primary form of printing and communication for 500 years.

In the back is another letterpress, a machine to make blocks of lead type, and metal trays of wooden blocks, one per letter, number or symbol.

Gutenberg’s letterpress printing is cumbersome compared with modern printing technologies, and hardly used. Most books, newspapers and magazines are now printed by huge machines with sheets of ...

As recently as 30 years ago, most daily newspapers in Thailand were printed by letterpress, a 15th-century printing technology invented by Johannes Gutenberg. The printing machine was known in ...

There he used to find his treasure, the huge letterpress printing machine, that he and only he knew how to deal with its temperamental character especially on cold and humid winter months.

Cindy Iverson and Jeryl Jones opened Phoenix Print Studios just a few weeks ago in Tempe, but they have been letterpress printing and teaching others how to letterpress for years.