“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...

Printing was first introduced in Iran during the Safavid dynasty in the early 16th century. The first printing press in Iran was installed by an Armenian merchant named Manuscript Khachatur Kesaratsi ...

HAVERHILL, Mass. — December 15, 2016 — “Amazement or nostalgia” is how Frank Romano, world-renowned printing expert and Rochester Institute of Technology professor emeritus, would describe a typical ...

The Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a donation of books and printing equipment from the estate of a noted historian of typography and early printing ...

Today's e-reader is a far technological cry from Gutenberg's press, but the purpose of the former remains the same as that of the latter: to efficiently disseminate information to a wide audience.

BRATTLEBORO — Since 1797 there has been a weekly or daily newspaper in Brattleboro for all but four years. It started with Benjamin Smead's paper the "Federal Galaxy" in 1797 and goes on to include ...