Printing Geek Gifts

The First Printed Bible

'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'

"Oh great, the printer is down."

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

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

'Is this your first book launch?'

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

Free Printer with Purchase of Ink

David Hockney

"Just when I think things couldn’t get any worse, they replace The Lockhorns with Doonesbury!"

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

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.'

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

Printers

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

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

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

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

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

"The Brother printer is out of ink."

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

Johannes Gutenberg

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

Condensed Books.

Home Business - Business Cards.

Desktop Press, what do you think?'

Breakfast Printing Press

An old-fashioned printer using an Albion press.