University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1983 Page 3 Nora Quinlan, special collections librarian at the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library, uses the Reliance press shown above to teach a course in the history of bookmaking, and to print signs and announcements for the library. Old printing press in Spencer producing high quality work By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter Staff Reporter Tucked away in a hole, back in a corner of the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library is a printing press that supplies electricity, but by a strong arm. The Hole and Corner Press does not publish as much as other University printing services, because its purpose is to produce high-quality printing, not mass production. Nora Quinlan, special collections librarian at Spencer, is the printer who carefully hand-ads each letter, and the proofs are printed by her sign she is printing for the library. SHE SLIDES THE INK over the tightly compressed letters, lowers the frame holding the paper and rolls the bed, which holds the words, under the press. She pulls down on a wooden arm and draws an arm to press the ink onto the paper. "The machine press caused the hand press to die out. It's become an eccentricity of printers." Quinlan said. "There has continued be a demand for machines that you don't get with machine presses. The work becomes personal." The iron printing press, built in the 1890s, is surrounded by scattered paper and drawers of type in various sizes and styles. The press, called a Reliance, was built by the Shniedewend Co. in Chicago. It is modeled after the The metal press, such as the wood in Spencer, evolved from the wooden press invented by Johann Gutenberg in the 15th century. THE FIRST METAL press was built in England in 1795. The first American press, the Columbian, was printed after, followed by the Washington. popular 19th century Washington hand press, Quinlan said. Quinlan said that the old presses that were still around were usually displayed in museums or ordered in the back of old printing shops. "They've pretty much all been snapped up. They're rare and far between." she said A Washington press used to print newspapers is displayed in Flint Hall, but although it works, it is not used. John Tallure, professor of art, has a Washington press with which he prints books. One of his books is being exhibited in Spencer Art Museum in recent acquisitions. Quinlan said no one knew where the press in Spencer came from. It has been in the library since the early 1950s. QUINLAN, WHO EARNED a degree in library science and a master's degree in art history from Columbia University in New York, said she was introduced to printing in a library school proctect. She said she started experimenting with the press the day of her job interview here five years ago. The first thing she printed was an That, along with the press's location in a corner of a room on the first floor of Spencer, is how the press earned its name, the Hole and Corner Press. "Half the fun of printing is naming the press," Quinlan said. The press also has its own logo of a solid circle sitting in a right angle. QUINLAN USES THE press to teach a course in the history of bookmaking, as well as to print signs and announcements for the library. She also has printed Christmas cards, and graduation announcements. Quinlan said three things were necessary for printing — time, money for materials and energy. "I don't always have all three at the same time," she said. "It's not as simple as it looks. You get obsessed with perfection." Sometimes she does a print many times to get the spacing and the inking exactly right. She said her rate of failure was about 25 percent. 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