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The talk, titled “The Uncommon Press: Reconstructing an Eighteenth-Century Printing Press,” will be held at 6 p.m. March 30 at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection on the third floor of The Wallace Center ...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – For the first time in more than 100 years, the classic mechanical presses at Cather Publishing are silent. Owner Bill Cather, 70, is retiring, ending three generations of a ...
The printing press was followed by the typewriter, the telegraph, the photocopier, printer and scanner. The computer with its programmable core evolved from a mechanical loom that took ...
“When I got started, old presses were practically scrap metal,” says Harold Kyle, who founded Boxcar Press in Syracuse, New York two decades ago. “Now they go for anything from $3,000 to ...
A group of RIT Mechanical Engineering students spent the 2014-2015 academic year in their senior design class collaborating with the Cary Collection to design and fabricate a 21st century ...
Woodblock printing was first recorded in ancient China and Egypt, and the process remained relatively unchanged for centuries until Gutenberg invented the first mechanical printing press in 1440.
The Power of Small." DÜSSELDORF, Germany — June 16, 2016 — Landa once again took center stage at drupa, taking over €450 million ($505 million) in orders for Nanographic Printing presses.
WURZBURG, GERMANY—December 1, 2014—On Nov. 29, 1814, 360 years after Gutenberg invented the hand press, a new steam-powered double-cylinder printing press from Friedrich Koeni ...
This article was originally published with the title “Mechanical Press for Copper Plate Printing” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 69 No. 13 (September 1893), p. 197 doi:10.1038 ...