Article: Their type never seems to change. (Colby Poster Printing Co.) (company profile)

Their type never seems to change

In an era of desk-top publishing, computer typesetting and quick-print shops on every corner, Los Angeles' Colby Poster Printing Co. uses technology that was introduced before Christopher Columbus was born.

Family-run Colby Poster is one of a handful of companies nationwide that still prints poster using hand-set wood and metal type and an antiquated letterpress printing press, dinosaurs in a computer-driven information age.

A year ago it replaced a four-ton Miehle letterpress built in 1895 with a newer, lighter model, built in 1917. Much of the type is hand-carved from maple wood and older than the business itself, which was ...

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