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Fine print book designer keeps inventor Johannes Gutenberg's centuries-old letterpress tradition alive

Derek Lamb will be the first to admit that manoeuvring a one-tonne iron press and using individual letter pieces to print words is not the most efficient of processes.

But in the digital age, where brevity and speed are often revered, he is gladly bucking the trend by keeping the centuries-old art of letterpress alive.

"The thing that draws me is the tradition … the romance of the process," he said.

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