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Digitally assisted letterpress printing production.

Apart from advancements in photomechanical dies and platemaking, modern letterpress technology has largely remained stuck in the past somewhere between the 1920's and mid 1960's. This has left letterpress a slow and laborious process.

Frustrated, the aproned team at Cranky Pressman set out to change all this. Introducing computer enhanced letterpress, bringing the speed and precision of digital devices to letterpress capabilities and thus bringing letterpress firmly into the late 20th Century!

Letterpress operators are standing by.

Heidelberg has long been one of the finest printing press manufacturers in the world. You can tell from this 1970's picture of their classic Windmill Letterpress. While most companies would have one or maybe two people tops to point to various bits and pieces on the machine, Heidelberg would settle for no less than five men!

~ Test your letterpress knowledge ~

Tell us in the comments below what's wrong with the picture above. The first correct answer and the funniest incorrect answer will each receive one of our original How Magazine cover letterpress prints done in collaboration with the smart folks at How and the lovely lasses at Parliament of Owls.

Contest ends Oct. 2, 2011, 11 pm EST. The Pressman's decision is final you hear!