The University of Calgary’s Book Arts Lab now features an operational Gutenberg-style printing press, thanks to the efforts of a group of UCalgary Schulich School of Engineering students. UCalgary Professor Dr Maria Zytaruk explained that no Gutenberg presses have survived to the modern day and documentation on their construction is limited. To infer the design of the press, the students researched the press and studied old books. “I thought it was really an excellent project for the students, who learned a lot from an engineering perspective but also quite a bit about the history of the press,” said UCalgary Schulich Vice-Dean Bob Brennan.
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