Lumiere Press interview in The Globe and Mail

An interview has been published in The Globe and Mail with Michael Torosian of Lumiere Press, which has celebrated 35 years in business:

Printer Savant pays homage to bygone era of publishing, photography

It’s indisputable that the most beautiful way of getting words on paper is with lead type on a letterpress. The technology has been around for 500 years and nobody really figured out a way of making it better.

When I discovered it, it wasn’t totally antiquated yet, but it really wasn’t commercially viable for the big companies. Big printing plants, newspapers and book publishers were dumping all their equipment. What had been exorbitantly expensive equipment was being sold for just a bit over scrap value. So, I hit the sweet spot, the moment where I could scoop up all this stuff and set up my own shop.

— Michael Torosian for the Globe and Mail

Photo: Globe and Mail

Lumiere Press: Printer Savant is one of the ‘22 Alcuin Awards winning books in the Limited Editions category.

The article is also available on Canadian Newsstream for any Canadian public library card holders.