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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PRESENTER:
ANTONY FUNNELL

THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION

The Melbourne Museum of Printing has one of the most comprehensive collections of print-related machinery, equipment, artefacts and documents in the world.

Here are examples of . . .

Standing typesettings which are jobs set up in type and not broken up after printing. These represent the work of hundreds of craftsmen and reflect the business of thousands of print customers, mainly businesses that closed decades ago.

Tens of thousands of engravings, which are the drawings and photographs, converted to letterpress format as blocks, that were used to illustrate all manner of documents.

[ Two views of our main warehouse ]



 
 
 
STEREOTYPED ADVERTISEMENT - - - - WOOD ENGRAVING WITH DETAIL INCL ENGRAVER'S NAME
PHOTOLITHO PLATE - - - - STANDING JOB: HANDSET HEADING, LINOTYPE TEXT - - - - POSTERS PRINTED BY VOLUNTEER
REFERENCE LIBRARY - - - - PRINTING FIRM'S WORK RECORD - - - - GESTETNER DUPLICATOR AND MANUAL TYPEWRITER
THE MONOTYPE SYSTEM : SUPERCASTER - - - - COMPOSITION KEYBOARD - - - - COMPOSITION CASTER
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