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Letterpress Printing

This submission for project 007 documented the equipment of a letterpress printer.

If you're not entirely clear on how letterpress printing works, check out the clip below.


Fun fact: the idiom "out of sorts" comes from letterpress printing. The little metal letter stamps are called "sorts," and if you don't keep them organized you're totally screwed.








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