One of the classic cautionary tales of Down Wing technological rejectionism is the story of the Ottoman Empire and the movable-type printing press. Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press ...

A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.

On Oct. 22, 1857, Alpheus W. Russell stood in a cramped office in what passed then for downtown Santa Rosa, gave a good hard turn to a crank and rolled out the first issue of what would later become ...

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Everyone who was born without a smartphone in their crib knows how a printing press works… in theory. You line up the type, ink up the slate, slap a piece of paper on, and then press down to print.

When the Olde Yakima Letterpress Museum moved to the Central Washington Agriculture Museum about three years ago, it meant more visibility for the nonprofit institution than it had experienced in its ...

Stories of triumphs and tragedies from around the world filter daily through Rockaway Township. A few miles off Interstate 80 lies a 352,461-square-foot facility. There are three massive printing ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Hudson Printing of Salt Lake City, the high-quality commercial printing operation known for superior color reproduction, is now home to a new Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press. Installation is in ...

The printing press was first invented in 1440 AD by Johannes Gutenberg. It’s not so relevant to our day to day lives today, but it’s a technology that forever changed the path of human history. Now ...

If they still teach European history in America’s public schools, chances are that schoolchildren have some notion that the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century depended on the 15th-century ...