Phoenix Phoenix Images from Parramatta High School Magazine

December 1917. Vol.1 No.4 - page 90

Letterpress

"...method of relief printing in which the type stands above the areas of the printing forme which are not to be printed."

Unlike the modern offset printed magazines, the earlier editions of our Magazine were printed by the letterpress method, invented c.1426 by Johann Gutenberg. Johann Gutenberg Evidence of this process can be seen in the margin of the page at left. The reversed imprint of the type on the previous page can be clearly discerned.


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