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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Courses in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism survey the history of publishing, starting with the dawn of the mechanical printing press, through today's world of interactive design. Seminar ...

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 ...

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 ...