John Bull Printing Outfits
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With many types of printing around today such as Screen Printing, Offset Lithography, LED UV, Flexography, Digital Printing and 3D Printing there still seems a fascination and interest in toys and Letterpress. Such toys like John Bull Printing outfits are still popular today. Seen below is the National Geographic Screen Printing Craft Kit which children of today love.
Many collectors today are still searching for that extra special John Bull Kit and many peoples lives were formed when they got one as a child, for many sparking a career in journalism, advertising and of course printing.
I am the proud owner of The Old Fashioned Press Printer seen here above, a great example of well made printing toys, I will be making a video of this shortly. Aside the John Bull Hand Press this is the only vintage British printing machine I have found.
Another great day out for the family is the National Print Museum over in Dublin a must if you ever have an holiday in Ireland. Like many my interest in printing all started as a child with my first John Bull Kit, today I still print with it and others I have collected over the years, my prize possession is The Old Fashioned Press Printer.
Did you know more women than men worked in printing by the millennium.
It was due to the fact most offices from the 1930's started using Gestetner printing machines and women progressed into print shops.
It would seem the machines were operated by women working in offices.
As time went on similar and just as technical duplicators were used and again women operated these too.
Now here's something, we all seem to take for granted the printer and photocopier in our homes but can you imagine they were around in 1780.
Considered the first step into the world of modern photocopying, the copying machine was among the first widely used devices to successfully produce an exact copy of an original written work. Designed and patented in 1780 by James Watt.
