Years ago, when I first wandered into the mysterious workings of the printing press, I recall having read Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises. I was particularly fascinated by the workings of the chapel, and the elaborate system […]
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“the universe is unfolding as it should”… On Distributing.
Perhaps one of the lesser-known (and least-enjoyed) tasks of letterpress printing is distributing type, or “dissing.” It is the final task of printing a text: it is the act of breaking up the text […]