Letterpress Revival: The Young Printers Keeping Lead Type Alive

Art schools can’t buy presses fast enough as a generation raised on screens falls for the slowest medium there is. The details, assembled from interviews and documents reviewed by The News Tribune, sketch a picture more textured than the headline suggests.

The project began, as many good ones do, with a constraint: not enough money to do the obvious thing, and just enough conviction to try the interesting one.

The future arrived on time. We were the ones running late.

Critics are divided, which the organisers count as success. Indifference, one of them noted, is the only review that closes a show.

The wider picture

Whether the gamble pays off will take years to know. What is already clear is that someone was willing to make it.