Virtual Museum Printing - Press

The press history is marked by fast or slow periods of printing equipment evolution. In spite of several patrimonial damages, some countries still have pieces that sign the most important moments of this technological evolution.

The Gutenberg printing press (15th century), where for the first time were used mobiles printing types, is the beginning of a long printing technology history. However, only four centuries later (19th final century), with the construction of Stanhope printing press, totally maid of iron, typography had an enormous take off. Senefelder as already create a new printing technique – the Lithography.

In 1811, Frederick Koenig constructs the first rotary printing press and introduces definitively the mechanism in press reproduction. All the other developments in printing speed are caused by this invent. Meanwhile, the new typesetter machines like Linotype, Typograph or Monotype threaten manual typesetting secular work. The offset system, invented in earlier 20th century, starts to be adopted only after Second World War, and replaces definitely the typographic traditional way of printing. In the meantime, computerized and telecommunications systems are quickly adopted by press, namely newspapers…
Virtual Museum of Press allows you to know some of this technology printing developments divided in four several parts:

Name: Wood types
Country: Portugal
Function: Used in bill printing
There are various specimens in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Wood chest for metal type Country: Portugal Function: For manual typesetting There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Foundry boiler Mark: Funditor Date: 1963 Country: England Function: Used in metal type foundry There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Reamer machine Mark: Winkler Faller & Cie. S.A. Country: Switzerland Function: Used to clean white spaces in stereotype clishés There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Camera Mark: Hunter Penrose, Ltd. Country: England Function: It was used to obtain photographic clishés for litographic works There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Keyboard-driver typesetting machine Mark: Monotype Country: England Function: Through a separated keyboard and type foundry, this machine producess line of types and justifing words There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Line composing machine Mark: Typograph Model: B Date: 1950 Country: Germany Function: Used for linotype setting There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Line composing machine Mark: Linotype Country: England Function: Used for linotype setting There's an exemplar in CFJ-Centro de Formação de Jornalistas/Portugal.


Name: Phototypesetter machine Mark: Compugraphic Modelo: MC58208/HR Date:1985 Country: USA Function: Last generation phototypesetter for electronic typesetting. There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.

Name: "Albion" hand press
Mark: Hopkinson & Hope
Country: England
Date: 1857
Country: England
Function: Small printing press used in typographic proofs
There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Hand press Mark: Alauzet Date: 19th century Country: France Function: Used for hand printing press There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Printing press Mark: Golding Country: USA Function: Small minerva used in little printing works There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Pedal printing press Mark: Marinoni Country: France Function: Minerva used in typographic printing There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Pedal printing press Mark: Golding Country: USA Function: Minerva used in typographic printing There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Printing press (minerva) Mark: A. Hogenforst Date: 1925 Country: Germany Function: Electric minerva for little tipographic works There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Vertical printing press Mark: Miehle Date: 1950 Country: USA Function: Used for offset works There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.

Name: Crease machine
Mark: E. Houpied
Date: 19th century
Country: France
Function: Used to crease card in binding works
There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Wire stitch machine Mark: Gebruder Brehmer Country: Germany Function: Used in notebook binding works. There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Screw press Mark: A.B.S. Country: Germany (?) Function: Screw press used in large bindings There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.

Name: Tie paper machine
Mark: IS-TE
Country: Finland
Function: Used to tie newspaper packets
There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Phonograph Mark: Edison Business Phonograph Date: 19th century Function: Earlier used for the reproduction of sounds There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Telex Mark: Siemens Date: 1970 Country: Germany Function: used to receive and send telex communications There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Addressing machine Mark: Addressograph Date: 1970 Country: USA Function: Used to adress newspaper subscribers There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.


Name: Sealing machine Mark: Lecoq Country: France Function: Used to print embossed seals There's an exemplar in AMI-Associação Museu da Imprensa/Portugal.