Technology & history

Shared insights in Museum’s rare book week event

Oct 08, 2025 at 12:59 pm by admin

NSW’s Rare Book Week delivers an opportunity to learn more about bookbinding, typography and “the eighth wonder of the world”, the Linotype machine. Penrith.... Read More

Opportunity to set type during NSW rare book week

Aug 27, 2025 at 11:59 am by admin

A special session during October’s NSW ‘rare book week’ provides a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in print history and try setting type, letter by lett.... Read More

Typesetting treasure puts museum on the lookout

Oct 01, 2024 at 02:35 pm by admin

With a newly-acquired C4 Intertype, equipped with a TTS reader, Sydney’s Penrith Museum of Printing is looking for perforated tape to run on it. And/or a perforator to.... Read More

Regional museum’s tale of Australia’s historic inky business

Feb 06, 2024 at 06:10 pm by admin

A lesser-known but comprehensive printing museum – complete with Linotype – tells the story of printing ink in Australia. Ink is still impressed onto paper in Arm.... Read More

Not quite: The year that letterpress newspapers (almost) died

Jan 16, 2024 at 10:36 am by admin

That day in 1959 Don McLean immortalised as the one ‘the music died’ lives on, but 2023’s place in history as ‘the year letterpress newspapers died&rsq.... Read More