Crane & Co. Letterpress Thank You Notes (CT1331)

Pull out the one below half way. Then pull out your case far enough to reach the back row of boxes. My name is Paul Collier, I'm the Letterpress and Typography technician at the University of Plymouth. Letterpress is an old form of mass production, an old form of printing, invented around about 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg. This workshop, tends to work in the same way as it did back in that time. So by using these pre-moulded, reusable letters made of metal and wood; moveable type, we can produce words and sentences and paragraphs and pages of text. This is a 500 year old process and it moves like a 500 year old process. It requires a greater degree of consideration when you're using this, mainly because there are no quick highlight and change sizes or typefaces like we can do on the computer. That's where technology has really pushed forward, is that we can change things in an instant.