Letterpress

Best of British: new life for old presses

For almost 20 years Letterpress Services has been refurbishing and converting letterpress machinery to high standards, then selling the presses to meet a steady demand for embellishment foiling and...

Overmatter: Champion of print

Overmatter understands that Bridgerton, a drama involving gossip, intrigue and royalty that recently aired on Netflix, has proved really rather popular.

Schmidt: repositioning is more than just a new name

Flint Group creates new pre-press arm

Flint Group has created a new division combining Xeikon’s pre-press business and Flint’s flexo wing, and has revived an old brand name as its moniker.

The museum's collection includes what is thought to be the only surviving example of a Ratcliff direct lithographic press

Jarrold Museum resumes hunt for new home

The John Jarrold Printing Museum has resumed its search for a new home after plans to relocate it to a medieval church in Norwich fell through.

The printer unit of DE2, built from Babbage's designs

How Charles Babbage invented computer printing

Sitting on an upper floor of the Science Museum in London are hulking metal examples of a Victorian mechanical computer age that never actually happened. These are the invention of Charles Babbage...

Great fakes

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

Jarrold Museum finds new home in Norwich church

The John Jarrold Printing Museum is set to relocate to a medieval church in Norwich after closing at its existing site, which faces demolition.

Stanley Lane finds further fame

Octogenarian artisan printer Stanley Lane's search for a successor received a further boost this week with an appearance on Radio 4’s The Untold.

Steering group outlines vision for new Jarrold Printing Museum

A steering committee set up to campaign for the John Jarrold Printing Museum to remain intact in Norwich has outlined its proposals for a new museum as its existing site faces demolition.

Best of British: A historic type firm that’s still at the cutting edge

Next year sees the 300th anniversary of the company that is today called Caslon Ltd. In 1720, a London based engraver called William Caslon cut the punches for his first typeface, and went on to set...