Melbourne Museum of Printing
Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.
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Enlarged Picture from the Museum's DOCUMENTS GALLERY

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This large job bag, or negative file, carries the computer-generated page artwork, the negatives and a copy of the finished booklet.

The artwork pages are taped together to make up an imposed sheet, but most of the tape has become unstuck.

Similarly, most of the negatives have come unstuck from their orange layout sheets. Should these be restored? A perennial question for museums to ponder.

The Museum has thousands of negative files from printers around Melbourne, and many offset plates as well. Most of these will have to be disposed of if no help is forthcoming.

Researchers who are interested, or have a potential interest, in any of the Museum's archival artefacts and documents are welcome to contact the Museum to state their interest (without obligation).


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