Technology & history

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

Celebrating three decades of portable document tech

Jul 12, 2023 at 01:36 am by admin

Is it really 30 years since the introduction of Acrobat? The portable document format (PDF) which was to be Adobe’s gift to the world, while at the same time remaining.... Read More

Time catches up with NSW’s living museum of a newspaper

Jul 11, 2023 at 08:19 pm by admin

In the end it was a recurring mechanical fault that sealed the fate of The Don Dorrigo Gazette… though had social media not destroyed his business model, Michael Englis.... Read More