Old-time Presses In A Modern World

But while the wooden presses of Ben Franklin's day have mostly made way for today's high-speed marvels, they're not completely gone. Historic villages and museums around the country keep them alive by operating old-style print shops—in-plants of a sort.

These shops offer modern printers a look at a time before automation changed the art of printing—before new technology was obsolete mere months after its purchase.