Printing Industry Professional Prints

Man from 'Printing Industry' riding on the speeding computer

The First Printed Bible

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

Johannes Gutenberg

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

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

Alberto Giacometti.

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

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

'I made hundreds of copies to give to all the students in my school. By the way, the color printer is out of ink.'

'It's a nice font but before deciding we'd really like to see your font library.'

"Now this is what I call a true work of genius. . . And I haven't even read it yet."

David Hockney

'George is from the 'old school' of printing...!'

"Of course it's improved. Check out the quality of the packaging graphics."

A caveman offers another a copy of, 'The Ug Issue'.

'Print is Dead.'

'I find your whole story difficult to swallow,' Literary Agent.

"Well, you've fianlly done it! No more rainforest left!"

'Unfortunately illuminating the strike placards could take a few years.'

Newspapers.

'Hello. My name is Gutenberg, and I have a swell new idea for something called a 'foldout'....'

1439. Movable type debuts in Europe.

"The printer ran out of ink so that's only a partial list of the side effects."

'What do you do if a 3-d print job gets messed up?'

He likes to eat newspapers and magazines? Yeah, he's a big consumer of print media.

"Dear Miss Philpott, aren't you excited to be part of a ground breaking experiment in desktop publishing?"

The Office Dinosaur in: Mr. Fix-it

Campaign Spending

'The copier's died on me. Can you send a replacement?'

In-house printing.

'This is a disgrace! I read about it online!'

"Well, Doc, being in the business. My opinion is that your printer got too much ink on his plates."