page_title: Printing
section_title: Letterpress
hierarchical_section_title: Printing / Conventional printing technology / Letterpress
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the original description provided by BAnQ has been retained. Additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians with the wiki description = parameter, but please do not modify the other fields.English: We see a Miehle brand letterpress machine operated by two workers standing on a platform in the newspaper's Saturday, located at 975 rue St-Denis in Montreal. Français&#160;: Nous voyons un appareil typographique de marque Miehle manoeuvré par deux ouvriers debout sur une plate-forme dans les locaux du journal La Samedi, situé au 975, rue de Bullion à Montréal.
context_page_description: Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing as applied to paper was woodblock printing, which appeared in China before 220 AD. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the scientific revolution, and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
context_section_description: Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing. A worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper. 
  There is different paper for different works the quality of paper shows different ink to use
  Letterpress printing was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century, when offset printing was developed. More recently, letterpress printing has seen a revival in an artisanal form.
caption: Miehle press printing Le Samedi journal. Montreal, 1939.
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