The history and layout of the California Job Case in letterpress printing

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Ever since the 1450s, when letterpress printing started to be formalized, a way was developed to organize all the letters of type. What takes up a great deal of space in a print shop, especially our shop, is type. In the background of our videos are type cabinets full of type cas…