Printing the Old-Fashioned Way in Berkeley, California
Ever wondered what it'd be like to step back in time? To enter a place that's surrounded by the post-modern and the digital age, but doesn't give into the pressures to modernize and refuses to succumb to the latest technology? Entering St. Hieronymus Press on April 27, 2012, I found a real Berkeley establishment that has stood the test of time. Large letter presses and mechanical offset printing presses from the late 1800s and early 1900s fill the print shop. Despite the recent bankruptcy of Houghton Mifflin and Borders Bookstore, this print shop and publishing destination hasn't bent to the impeding forces of the printing and publishing world outside (and it's still in business). They’ve been printing using traditional methods for nearly 5 decades, and they don't look like they're going to change any time soon. Today, printing and publishing on paper is a statement in and of itself, but going to the extreme of printing how our great grandfathers ...