Print Specialist Gifts

'She may look like a little girl but she's responsible for one quarter of all our print revenue in children's consumables.'

I've always wanted to quit while I was ahead but the opportunity never presented itself.

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

Copycats

Where Indian ink came from.

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

STRIP Hambone: Paper work

"Oh great, the printer is down."

The First Printed Bible

Newspaper suicide.

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

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

Technology and literature

Free Printer with Purchase of Ink

'My teacher said my penmanship has really improved since I started doing my homework on an inkjet printer.'

David Hockney

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.'

'I think I can solve our budget problem with the color scanner, color laser printer and this twenty-dollar bill!'

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

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

Printers

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

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

"You say we're running low on stock? Couldn't we just print out some new ones?"

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

"These printers can be pretty self-righteous when they present their bills."

"The Brother printer is out of ink."

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

'Yes, we can get all this into your ad, but we'll have to set the copy in 0.00005 point type.'

Johannes Gutenberg

"Well, no wonder you can't think! There's your brain over there on the floor!"

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

"Having a baby will ruin my figure, so Tom and I are making one with a 3D printer."