Technology & history

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

Funding puts Zylinder on a roll to Penrith

Aug 23, 2023 at 12:00 pm by admin

The space is ready and the money raised: Penrith Museum of Printing’s latest acquisition is on the way after it’s A$5000 crowdfunding target was met ahead of deadl.... Read More

Historic press heads for new home… and you can help

Aug 05, 2023 at 12:46 pm by admin

The historic Heidelberg cylinder press which has been printing the Don Dorrigo Gazette is headed for a new home at the Penrith Museum of Printing. The last newspaper in Austr.... Read More