pegelli
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Book printing in the 16th century:
About a week ago I visited the Plantin-Moretus museum in Antwerp which is housed in the former printing workshop of Christoffel Plantin (founded around 1550) and later continued by the Moretus family (one of his sons in law and decendants).
It was facinating to see how books were printed in those times, simply page by page in manually operated printing presses. When you bought a book there you only got a stack of pages that you still needed to take to a book binder to complete it as a finished book.
A row of printing presses
Typesetting (also a manual labour)
and no "autocorrect" like today, so the print shop employed about as many correctors as typesetters.
Doghide covered stamps to apply just the right amount of ink
They used doghides, because dogs have no pores. When hides with pores were used the ink wasn't applied evenly to the typeface which could smudge the smaller characters
A finished product
Het Cruydeboeck by Rembert Dodoens, ca. 1554
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About a week ago I visited the Plantin-Moretus museum in Antwerp which is housed in the former printing workshop of Christoffel Plantin (founded around 1550) and later continued by the Moretus family (one of his sons in law and decendants).
It was facinating to see how books were printed in those times, simply page by page in manually operated printing presses. When you bought a book there you only got a stack of pages that you still needed to take to a book binder to complete it as a finished book.
A row of printing presses
Typesetting (also a manual labour)
and no "autocorrect" like today, so the print shop employed about as many correctors as typesetters.
Doghide covered stamps to apply just the right amount of ink
They used doghides, because dogs have no pores. When hides with pores were used the ink wasn't applied evenly to the typeface which could smudge the smaller characters
A finished product
Het Cruydeboeck by Rembert Dodoens, ca. 1554
All A7Rii + Tamron 28-200 Di III RXD
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