Quotes About Printing

By one estimate, more books were printed in the first fifty years after Gutenberg's discovery than had been copied by all the scribes in Europe in the previous thousand years.

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

by some 220 years Gutenberg's lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

In Egypt, for instance, the first printing press was set up only in 1798, by Frenchmen who were part of the abortive attempt by Napoleon Bonaparte to capture the country.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

There are more English books printed in Antwerp than in London, but those who print without a licence are branded, sometimes an eye is gouged out or a hand cut off. And informers are everywhere. Even, no doubt, amongst our own merchants.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Ces journalistes obscurs, payés seulement après l'insertion, restaient souvent pendant la nuit aux imprimeries pour voir mettre sous presse, soit les grands articles obtenus, Dieu sait comme ! soit ces quelques lignes qui prirent depuis le nom de réclames. Aujourd'hui,

He returned the scanned cartoon, already worming its way through the Armitage-Weir computer system toward the laser printers of tomorrow's newsstands. "There you go, cizzen. Many thankings.

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Here is page 31 again, page 32 ... and then what comes next? Page 17 all over again, a third time! What kind of book did they sell you, anyway? They bound together all these copies of the same signature, not another page in the whole book is any good.

Even the actual printing of the final draft fell to her, as her dat doubted that anyone could decipher his herky-jerky farmer's hand. When she had finished, he signed it.

More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

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Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

When in doubt, use Caslon.

If organs as elemental as brain and heart can be persuaded to regenerate, and others, like ears and corneas, can be fashioned from living ink, how will that change us as a species? Will the printing of organs affect our evolution? Could it alter our genes?