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