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Description: Printing Museum, teaching the practice and origins of typography. Providing a letterpress studio for typographical printmaking. Showing and explaining newer systems from the Linotype to the Digital Press, Wide Format Printing, and many related crafts and industries such as Packaging, Publishing and Paper-Making.

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Heritage, tangible and intangible The crafts, technologies, working environments and business of printing and related industries. From the invention of metal types, the hand-operated presses and hand binding of books, through so many great inventions (mostly since overtaken) to today's and tomorrow's technologies. Education and Research Provision of a range of hands-on experiences enables designers, artists, writers and editors, printers, typesetters, librarians and enthusiasts to better understand what the

> > LOTS OF PICTURES right here! each with its story and explanation.

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