“. . .do you think, ‘Wow. I’m really going to have to kiss like a movie star to deliver on this.’? “

Collecting beautiful paper is an unwieldy problem; it’s fragile, big, and very vulnerable to almost everything in its environment from mice to moisture.

Invented by James Watt, who also made the steam engine, copy presses were used by Presidents Thomas Jefferson through Calvin Coolidge. Today, these are colloquially known as book presses.

“Rarely have we enjoyed a technology that is so versatile and universal as paper and ink, and it’s also such a joy to use.”