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Quotes About Printing

The first book printed in Lithuanian was an edition of Luther's Short Catechism, published in (Polish) Ducal Prussia at Königsberg in 1547; the Luther Catechism was the second published work in the related language of Lettic, at Königsberg in 1586.
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
~ Stanley Morison
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
~ Jerry Mathers
I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE) A greater Gatsby (Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE)
~ Ernest Hemingway
Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe's first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.
~ Andrew Marr
The most successful ran a shop full of scribes turning out several dozen copies a week. These avvisi were succinct, wide ranging and remarkably well informed.
~ Andrew Pettegree
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
~ Andy Rooney
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
~ Gil Kane
We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
~ Paul Kantner
The whole process of getting cards printed is so cumbersome.
~ Neelam Kothari
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer.
~ Ellen Ullman
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
~ Bill Brandt
I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.
~ Igor Luksic
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
~ John Sexton
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
~ Dave Eggers
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
~ Alice Waters
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
~ Virginia Postrel
If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
~ Rand Paul
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
~ Ted Nelson
No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about or on a subject that appeals to me.
~ Michael Dirda
'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.
~ Jane Lindskold
Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.
~ Rick Santelli
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
~ Nate Silver