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Jul 26, 2023

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Illinois graduate student Martha Larkin pulls a lever to operate a hand press as students get hands-on experience with historical printing technologies. Ryan Cordell, a professor of information

Illinois graduate student Martha Larkin pulls a lever to operate a hand press as students get hands-on experience with historical printing technologies. Ryan Cordell, a professor of information sciences and of English, created a book arts studio in the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab with the refurbished hand press and two other letterpresses to teach the history of printing technology.

Photo by Fred Zwicky