The members of the Penrith Museum of Printing are proud to announce that we now have in addition to Offset Alpine Printing a new sponsor  to help us in our mission to showcase letterpress printing history in Australia. 

Mr. Bob Lockley, Chief of Printing and Logistics of Fairfax Media announced at the Single Width User Group’s (SWUG) Annual Conference Gala Dinner in Tamworth NSW recently, that the SWUG Committee, of which Mr Lockley is  President, was proud to announce SWUG's commitment to an ongoing sponsorship of the Penrith Museum of Printing. The SWUG annual conference brings together many of Australia's foremost newspaper and magazine producers and suppliers to hear and learn about new printing and publishing technologies and advancements as well as other relevant printing industry topics.

Mr Stephen Brique, President of the museum was offered the opportunity to travel to Tamworth in NSW to address the SWUG annual conference at which a presentation on the purpose and goals of  the museum was delivered to the 200 assembled  delegates. 

The members and volunteers of the Penrith Museum of Printing would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Mr Bob Lockley and all the SWUG Committee for their generosity and support and for the opportunity to be able to further spread the word about our letterpress museum at their conference. 

You can read the full story in the latest edition of the our newsletter, "The Final Proof". 

Have a look at the May edition of our Newsletter, the "Final Proof". This edition has an article on a new ongoing sponsorship by SWUG - read about this important group and their conference the museum committee members attended in Tamworth NSW in March 2010.  Read an article about our wonderful old Wharfedale flat bed press. There is also a story about a young man who came to us and asked to set 770 words in hand-set type. There's lots more of course to read about and we hope you enjoy it.

Click here to download a copy of  May edition of "The Final Proof" pdf

Typography Courses.

Our typography (type-setting) courses continued to gain momentum during 2009 and now in 2010 we continue to offer these popular courses. See the "What's New" page now for new 2010 dates.

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 computer based technologies.  See our "What's New" page for more details. 

See our "What's New" page for more details and photos  > go there. Class numbers are limited (4),  Instruction by Tradesmen, Work at your own pace, Use your own copy or ours, Learn to read "mirror image", Learn the type case layout. We promise you a great time at the type case.
If being involved in our Typography programme is something that you think would be of interest to you, then please contact us for more details. See our "What's New" page for more details.

Museum Opening Times:

The museum is open to the public each Saturday for general viewing and demonstrations, between the hours of 10am 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)