Quotes About Printing

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element—laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar.

There might still be copies in existence if they got as far as printing them. He could've given some away. Review copies and the like." "I'm already on it," said Robin. "I've emailed a few different second-hand book places." This wasn't the first time she had found herself doing something for the agency that made her feel grubby.

agate; agate type; aggie. In ancient times colored stones were often found near the Achates River in Sicily. The river gave its name to these pretty stones, or gems, as they were called. Because they were small, the stones gave their name to a small printing type, agate type, that is still used widely today. This type is called ruby in England but has been agate type in America since 1871. The marbles called aggies are so named because their coloring resembles agate.

We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

This volume probably contains more promises and less evidence per page than has any publication since the invention of printing," the Nobel physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi wrote in his review of Dianetics for Scientific American.

difference between intaglio and lithography?

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

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.

Talent doesn't starve any more. Even art gets enough to eat these days. Artists draw your magazine covers, write your advertisements, hash out rag-time for your theatres. By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved his own niche. But beware the artist who's an intellectual also.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.

Myles Coverdale (1488–1569), who had been Tyndale's assistant as well as an English clergyman, produced the first complete printed English Bible. This was a milestone in Bible translation history

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.

Equality sets men apart and weakens them; but the press places a powerful weapon within every man's reach, which the weakest and loneliest of them all may use. Equality deprives a man of the support of his connections; but the press enables him to summon all his fellow-countrymen and all his fellow-men to his assistance. Printing has accelerated the progress of equality, and it is also one of its best correctives.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.