handiness
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The mechanical pressure that gave birth to the printed book in the form of the wooden handpress is today both vastly reduced in scale and multiplied in number through our interactions with the digital.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2012
The little book was written in Latin and only a few copies were printed, presumably at the priest's own expense, on a handpress by Giovanni Battista Monauni, printer to the Bishop in Trent.
From The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 by Bedini, Silvio A.
We tried to stock that pond with oysters once, and Ridge and I printed invitations for a clambake on our handpress, on the strength of them, but it was a dreadful waste of money.
From While Caroline Was Growing by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
The little pile of stones and the lithographer's handpress in a corner of the studio have been used in many an experiment, as has a set of beautiful type loaned to Hull-House by a bibliophile.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane
In the printing room the compositors are seen at work, and a printer is working a handpress.
From An Enemy of the People by Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson)
