Cincinnati Type and Print Museum

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:59):
Twenty nine above care City Talk Station, Happy Friday. Hope
you have some good plans for the weekend, and I
hope they involve indoor air conditioning activities given know how
it is. I'm also so pleased to welcome back to
the fifty five krs Morning Show from the Cincinnati Print
and Type Museum, Gary Walton, Gary GOODI, you have you
back on the Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I would also thank my mom, who did a tour
of the CINCINNTI Print Museum and was the one that
alerted to me of its existence and maybe something that
I should already have known about, because, as you explained
last time, you're on and you can remind my listeners
about the history and how close Cincinnati is and the
history of Cincinnati and its connection with the print industry
generally speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, we are truly the sleeping Giant. There are over
three hundred printers in Cincinnati, and I know that for
a fact because I have them on my mailing list
and I send them our newsletter every year. And we
are the twelfth largest printing center in the United States,
which is huge when you realize there are two one
hundred and thirty metropolitan areas in the United States and

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we're number twelve. So there's fifty cities that are bigger
than we are and we do more print. So our
model here is life revolves around print, and it truly
does in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
And you can tour the museum and we'll get some
details on that. But also it's an education opportunity and
a career opportunity to get in the print industry.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yes, So Tuesday the twenty fourth, and Wednesday the twenty fifth,
and Saturday twenty eighth of this month, we are conducting
a celebration of Gutenberg six hundred and twenty fifth birthday.
It's totally free. It's an open house from ten am
to three pm and people can come and actually print

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on our Gutenberg press a copy of Genesis chapter one
in Latin, and then you go in the back room
and you print it again in English. So you leave
with a Latin copy and an English copy of the
exact image that Gutenberg actually creative. And then while you're here,
we're going to talk about crew opportunities in print and
about actually placing. If you want a job in print,

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we can help you set up and get that. But
also we're doing a lot of training lately, especially with
adults with disability. That's our new focus right now, which
we're just having a blast with and so you and
you come, you'll actually get to meet a fad who
has autism, and he will do a lot of the
demonstrating on the presses for you, and you'll see how

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we're able to help this community find employment. And ninety
five percent of adults with disability or unemployed, and our
goal is to change that, especially here in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh that's fantastic. I had no idea you worked with
folks struggling with disabilities. So I have a friends. His
son is Ausberger's syndrome, and the kid is, in spite
of his autism, is really quite frankly, a brilliant, brilliant
young man. Yes, and he is employed full time. And
obviously there are opportunities. And the print is, as you mentioned,

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the Gutenberg Press, that has got to be So you're
actually if I go there or one of my listeners
goes there, they're actually going to operate that Gutenberg press
themselves in printing the copy of the page of this Bible.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes, I'm gonna, I am. My staff will system, but
people actually ink it up, they'll pull the lever. Yeah,
they'll actually do it themselves.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh that's neat, And how old is is the Gutenberg press.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
That you have, so so the original one is something
like six years old, and that doesn't exist anymore. Ours
was actually built in nineteen seventy one by a gentleman
who was contracted by the Smithsonian to build one for them,
and he had so much fun putting it together he

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built two more, so I have one now and then
the Museum in Los Angeles as the second.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh so he built three.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Of them, and they're in the Smithsonian Los Angeles and
now in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So it's a rare thing to even see one in person,
let alone operate it.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
We believe there's only in our research, there's only ten
Gutenberg presses in the United States. So yes, this is
definitely something to see, and we're becoming nationally known, an
international not exaggerating. Yesterday Jones from Spain was here because
you heard we had a press and he got to
print on the Gutenberg press. And we've got people from

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all over the country coming. Google is doing a fantastic
job of advertising for us. When you put in letter
press printing, we pop up on as one of the
first places to go. And we broke broke a record
last year, over a thousand and three hundred people came
to the museum, and a hundred those were from other
parts of the country, and I think this year we'll
probably double that.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh that's wonderful putting you on the map and keeping
you in growing your presence, and putting Cincinnati on the
map too. As far as the printing industry goes now,
I think when I think of the of press, honestly,
when we've talked, or before we talked last time, and
before I became aware of modern press and what that means,
you know, I had in mind, you know, the the

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newspaper presses and you know how those run. You've seen
them in movies a million times. And also Gutenberg Press
and the type setters who put the little letters together
in order to create the plate for the press. And
that's all old school. When you were on last time,
you talked about some of the modern printing that's going on.
Give my listeners a little bit of insight and reminder
about what that involves.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
So when you speak of printing, there are six different
ways to put ink or tone of powder onto paper, plastic, metal,
or wood. So printing is not just paper anymore. It's
it's everything. So when you look at your Mac computer.
There is printing on your Mac computer. When you look
at your watch, there's printing on your watch. When you
go in the kitchen your microwave, that whole panel was

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printed on a traditional press. So the industry is drastically changing,
drastic growing. When I started in the seventies, I'll never forget.
I was at gifts and greeting cards and we're running
a press printing a fifty enth sheet of paper, fifty
green cards on that paper, and we were going three
five hundred copies an hour, which was fast. Today, I'll

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take you to that, it's just a similar plant and
same press now printing ten colors and running something ridiculous
of twenty thousand copies or sheets the paper an hour.
So the speed is just incredible. We are using artificial intelligence,
so we actually have the machine actually has cameras that
are looking at the color making adjustments that they needed.

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And so this is really helping us be extremely productive
in producing quality products. And one of my goals is
I want Cincinnati to be a leader in this new
technology called printing electronics. We're actually printing circuit boards and
antennas and all kinds of electronic devices. Because in the
next ten years every electronic device was starting to pressureroom
because of the cost saving its huge cost savings.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
And that's honestly, that is one of the more fascinating
elements about it. This is an evolving thing because again
preconceived notions about what you know printing involves you think, well,
this is an industry that's going to go the way
of the Dodo, But no, it just keeps getting bigger,
and the opportunities for printing, like those circuit boards, just

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keep getting bigger as well. So this is a career
opportunity and you might want to check it out again
June twenty fourth, and funny at twenty fifth and the
twenty eighth as well. Yes, okay, Saturday, ten am to
three pm. What's the address of the since Type in
Print Museum, Because it's not just these events. You can

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go and visit at other times. And I'd like you
to also provide the website. We'll have all this hooked
up on my blog page fifty five Casey dot com.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, we're located at twenty three seven West A Street.
There is a gravel parking lot on the right side,
but also you can park on the street. We are
open to the public at anytime. We are free. When
I started this museum nine years ago, I decided it
was going to be free so that anybody of any
level financially could come and not have to worry about
paying for a fee. Also, but I got to honest

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with you, it's a carrot to get you in, to
convince you to go into print and make you ambassadors
or our model, which is that your life revolves around print.
You know, as you start looking at everything that's around you,
most of you have for micro countertops, that's a pressure
that we print it. You're putting this new flooring material
into your kitchen, those are pressures that we print it
and then laminate it to board. When you go into

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a typical Walmart or marketplace, throw over three hundred and
fifty thousand packages, that all has to be reproduced every
thirty days because we consume those packages. So printing is
just huge and most people are totally ignorant of that.
And like I say, we are the sleeping giant. And
then again also I criticize ourselves. We are the reason
why people don't know. And the museum is going to

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change that. It's definitely here in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well, you know what, Gary, that's why I loved having
you on the program last time and why I'm glad
you're back today because it is fascinating. It's much bigger
than we ever knew about. And of course, being of
the capitals of printing in the world and considering the
size of the industry, career opportunities abound. Gary Walton from
the Cincinnati Type and Print Museum, appreciate your time and

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what you do each and every day. If my listeners
are interested, check out the information of the blog page
fifty five kr see dot com and make sure you
stop in and take a visit. You certainly impress my mom.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's always why to impress them with mother always why well,
word of mouth.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's the way of getting things around, especially when she
has a son who has access to well a listening audience. Gary,
I'm happy to help you spread the word. Keep up
the great work, my friend. I'm sure we'll have you
back on the morning show down the Road.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Thank you, my friend. Have a great Friday.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Thanks you too. It's eight thirty nine to fifty five
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