Machine Artistry
My trade is printing
commercial web-press printing
Printing is an art
A difficult art
It takes an age of learning
to master this form
Printers are painters
yet we do not use brushes
We paint with machines
And do not use paint
but ink to produce precise
graphic images
We follow Franklin
who wrote a poem for us
(His proud Epitaph)
I refer here to older web printing presses which I used to operate. Of course, today's presses are completely automated. Most of today's press operators would be clueless on the ones I ran. Today, printing is not an art, but a lost art...
By: tryerson
motif: Historical
Copyright © Tim Ryerson | Year Posted 2014
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