Article: Never to be typecast; Like most printers, Bill Moran works on computers. But what makes his work unique is decades-old wood and metal type.(NEWS)

1/3 So who says you have to choose between computers and the less effective but more solidly reassuring things of wood and steel that came before?

Graphic designer Bill Moran does most of his work on a bank of computers in an office overlooking St. Paul's Farmers Market. But next to the computers, and just as busy, stands his grandfather's old Chandler & Price letterpress, flanked by vintage California job cases stocked with metal type.

Computer geek meets Luddite - and they form a partnership.

When Augsburg Fortress Publishers moved out of its old building in downtown Minneapolis two years ago, Moran put in a bid for the Lutheran ...

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