Melbourne Australia

Melbourne Museum of Printing

Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.

The collection includes machines of all kinds for printing, typecasting, typesetting, cutting, folding, camerawork, platemaking, stereo and many others. For letterpress, offset, foil printing, stampmaking, labelmaking. Typesetting systems (traditional and modern) include Asian and European language machines and founts. Technical notes and historical notes about the machines are included within this Collection. Technical notes about matrix systems for use in these machines are also included.

The Pre-Press collection includes photo-typesetters, computer typesetters, DTP and other systems which produce an image of type on film or paper; cameras, platemakers, processors: items which produce or handle images for photo-based printing. The Printing Press section displasys Letterpress platen and cylinder presses and proofers; Offset presses; Label presses and Overprinters. Hot Foil Stamping presses; bookbinders  gold blocking presses.

Location: 266 Geelong Road, West Footscray, 350 m south of West Footscray Station (in the inbound service road)

The Museum is open on Sundays and Thursdays, 2pm to 6pm.

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