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An international printing heritage network

We share knowledge, experience, initiatives, and resources in all fields of the graphic arts as they have been practised from the time of Gutenberg until the present day. Read more about us

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November 28, 2025 to September 27, 2026

CHEATING! Not fair, but brilliant

Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart Exhibition : 28 November 2025 — 27 September 2026 Do you never turn over an extra card during a game of solitaire? Or have you ever made the last Rubik’s cube block disappear? The urge to win runs deep, and sometimes a little trick turns into an amazing trick. What

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Posted November 24, 2025

Small litho press free to a good home – Urgent ! Very urgent !

This small litho press manufactured by D & J Grieg in Edinburgh will be going for scrap on 28 November. …

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17 novembre 2025

Presse à arrêt de cylindre à donner

[Paliseul, Belgique] Je dois vider un atelier de mon père dans lequel séjourne depuis 80 ans une presse exceptionnelle produite …

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17 November 2025

Mercedes-Glockner stop-cylinder press looking for a new home

Dutch manufactured Mercedes-Glockner stop-cylinder press in Amsterdam. Original German design by Paul Glockner. Dutch height letters. Still functioning, but could …

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AEPM 2025 - annual conference of the Association of European Printing Museums

3-5 September 2025 | Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, UK.

A brief history of printing and related museums worldwide

in the form of a timeline of the foundation dates of over three hundred printing and graphic heritage organisations from 1843 to the present day

Publications & conference proceedings

A variety of publications about printing and graphic heritage including profiles of printing museums, a selection of papers from previous AEPM conferences and a brief history of printing and related museums in the form of a timeline of the foundation dates of nearly two hundred printing and graphic heritage organisations worldwide.

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Printing and related museums in Europe and worldwide

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