Bosshard's Printing Primer

The Letterpress Pages | Commercial Offset Printing


The art of printing is so noble and useful an art, that for all who practise it a certain degree of culture should be taken for granted. -Johann Friedrich Unger

From the earliest days the hands of printers have wielded a great power, the magical power to reproduce words a thousandfold. Powerful forces originate in the printer's workshop and spread from there exerting their influence on humanity. So great a responsibility demands men of a special calibre, and printers have always been such men. -Helmut Presser


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