These cover books and papers as artefacts, books about print and related areas and items printed in our Access Studio. These are collections which are not directly related to the printing industry but to the working environment in general and the office environment in particular. Founts of type are stored in typecases. Typecases are stored in type cabinets. We have a collection with thousands of founts, hundreds of cabinets and every kind of accessory and tool used in traditional printing.
Printing presses are, in the main, either letterpress or offset- litho.
In letterpress there are platen presses and cylinder presses. They may be motorised or person-powered. They may be hand-fed or automatically fed. They may be large machines or little desktop devices. We have them all, dating from about 1850 to the 1980's.