Print Proclaimed T-Shirts

'Lost your kindle in the cab? Try my outdated destined-for-extinction, low-priced print edition.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Copycats

Where Indian ink came from.

STRIP Hambone: Paper work

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"Yep, I've read this chapter before."

"Oh great, the printer is down."

The First Printed Bible

"Nice, but as long as there are readers there will be scrolls."

Phil would get giddy after a large print run, but the company was saving a fortune.

Large print e-book.

Big Newspaper Delivery

"Well..I think the old Thermograph machine I rescued from work goes a treat with our kitchen units."

Free Printer with Purchase of Ink

'Read ALL about IT! While we're STILL in Circulation!'

David Hockney

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

"Yes, we still love print, don't we?"

RBG, RGB, CMYK

'Our expenses have decreased 20 per cent since we started refilling our own ink jet cartridges.'

'Ah, Gutenberg, I'm just writing an article about your silly bookpress.'

'Yes, the colours are wonderful. But he only does five pages per month, and he doesn't support PostScript.'

3:00 pm - Meet the author

Printers

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

'The Ailing Matisse tries cutting out meat and dairy products.'

'...and what's more, they're all first editions.'

"In this series, the artist is in dialogue with her printer."

"Have you figured out our New Year's resolution?"

"I wouldn't mind, but I only topped the bloomin' thing up last week!"

Alberto Giacometti.

"The Brother printer is out of ink."

David Hockney

'As a cost-cutting measure, from now on we're going to print the stimulus money on recycled paper.'