Irie Zepeda's excitement is palpable. In a low-slung building shaded by the towering arc of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge — just steps from the legendary Chicano Park murals — Zepeda demonstrates a ...

If you’ve made a trip to Centennial Village Museum, there’s a good chance you are familiar with the museum’s print shop where visitors can step back in time to learn about the art of printmaking and ...

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 Koenig and Andreas Bauer was ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology students are using a new technology to capture an old experience. Their virtual reality app simulates printing on a 19th-century cast iron hand-press that once ...

LE SUEUR — When artist Craig Kotasek saw an antique printing press firsthand at an exhibit in Minneapolis two decades ago, he noticed a resemblance to the agriculture equipment he’d grown up around as ...

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 ...

The printing press is “a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter”, explained History.com. Before its invention, all manuscripts had to be written out by hand, and the only ...

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In 1991, a 25-year-old Mark Attwood, newly qualified as a master printer at the Tamarind Institute in the US, returned to Johannesburg and got to work setting up a print studio in Newtown. With only a ...