Penrith Museum of Printing
 

PENRITH
MUSEUM of
  PRINTING
     Established 2001

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Some printing terms to recall:

galley, key, stone, bed, en,  signature, stock, dog, mid, magenta, dis, quarto, em, rule, stick, chapel, matrix, stereo, slug, proof press, scoring, ream, spine, cast, hickey, bone, sett off, back knife, ragged, recto, point, Royal, ejector, quoin,  wf reader spread, quadder, calliper, line gauge, die,  super caster, disser, em,  cutting rule, diecase, thin, mounting block, card, nut, mark up, stet, leader, full point, punchbar, half tone, folios, logotype,
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Last Update:

27 June, 2009

 

  

      

 

Welcome to the Penrith Museum of Printing.

The Museum's programs are back in action with tours booked, type setting classes continuing and others in the pipeline.

The members of the Museum are proud to be taking part in the Museums and Galleries NSW  "Standards Program". This important program is designed to assist and help museums with their operations and continued development within a supportive framework. We look forward to working with M&G NSW staff during 2009.   

Typography Courses.

Our typography (type-setting) courses are continuing to develop and grow  and we look forward to offering our "Typography 1 and 2" courses to even more people during the year.

These courses and others we are developing are designed to give participants the opportunity to go back in time and learn how printing was done prior to the advent of photographic and computer based technologies.  See our "What's New" page for the upcoming Typography course dates for 2009. 

UNSW College of Fine Arts "Apprentice Compositors" - Christine,  Emily and Katherine  - "At one with the letters" at the Typography 1 course.

See our "What's New" page for more details and photos > go there.
 

Class numbers are limited; 
All instruction given by Tradesmen;
Work at your own pace.

If being involved in one of our Typography programmes is something that you think would be of interest to you, then please contact us for more details.
 

Museum Opening Times:

The museum is open to the public each Saturday for general viewing and demonstrations, between the hours of 10.00am and 2.00pm and on other days by appointment only.

Please note that the Museum is closed on all public holiday weekends.

See our "Group Tours" page if you would like to book a tour for your group.

The museum provides a much needed venue for this important collection of historic printing machinery and equipment that has seen service in a number of Australian print-shops for more than a century.

We hope you enjoy visiting our website and that you will take the time to come and visit the museum and view some of Australia's printing heritage in action.

Alan Connell  (Founder)

 

 

    

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