Printing Pioneer Gifts

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

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

Copycats

Where Indian ink came from.

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

STRIP Hambone: Paper work

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

The First Printed Bible

"The results are impressive, but it'll be decades before we can transmit and receive pornography."

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

'As you can see,we run a completely paperless office.'

'Those are my twins: NASDAQ and Dow. They were born at the height of the dot.com boom.'

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

S.S.dot.com

Free Printer with Purchase of Ink

Computerized society.

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.'

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

"You know if we market it right, this thing could spread like the wheel."

Printers

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

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

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

Johannes Gutenberg

"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.

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

"The Brother printer is out of ink."

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

David Hockney