Cincinnati Type & Print Museum

08/31/2026

From 1948-1995, this Cincinnati store was a hometown go-to source for buying appliances, home goods and electronics. Who remembers the name of the store...and where was its flagship store located?

(Note: when setting type by hand, you quickly learn how to read backwards!). Schedule your FREE museum tour today at 513-941-7522!

08/27/2026

Setting type and imagery by hand is painstakingly slow sometimes…but so worth the effort!. Thanks to Cincinnati-area printing companies, letterpress enthusiasts, and the families of printers, almost all of our imagery and type fonts have been donated to the museum.

What would you like to create and print when you schedule your tour at our site in Lower Price Hill? Let us know and we’ll see if we have it in our collection. Set up a (free!) tour at 513-941-5722.

08/19/2026

Workhorse? Indeed? The Showcard proof press is a workhorse piece of equipment (no pun intended) at our Lower Price Hill Museum. It’s where we test layouts, fonts, spacing and other elements of good printing design.

Here, a letterpress image plate (left) of a horse is laid out, adjusted and held in place by powerful magnets. Once rolled with ink, the printed image then gets eyeballed. Is it straight? Is the ink applied equally? Does the layout need to be adjusted?

Tie on a printer’s apron and try the Showcard firsthand when you (and your group, homeschool class, family, friends) schedule a free tour today at 513-914-5722. Donations are accepted.

08/13/2026

WHO-DEY indeed!!!

As the Bengals prepare for the 2026-27 season, all of us at The Cincinnati Type & Print Museum in Lower Price Hill send a modern-day WHO-DEY!!!...acccompanied by some old-school football imagery from our imagery collection. Let's do this, Cincinnati!!

Stadium

08/07/2026

Which iconic Cincinnati brand is this?
Letterpress printers quickly embrace a special skill: The ability to read backwards so that the resulting printed words support left-to-right reading. Quick: which iconic Cincinnati beer brewer is this? (Note: almost all of the metal/wooden type and imagery in our collection have been donated by local printers or individuals whose family members worked in the printing industry).

08/04/2026

Schedule Your 2026-27 School Field Trip Today!

School is already in session or about to open throughout the Tristate. Time to schedule your 2026-2027 student field trip to The Cincinnati Type & Print Museum in Lower Price Hill! It’s an interactive, hands-on experience. Don a printer’s apron, learn about the history & future of letterpress printing and Cincinnati’s role in it, and then print something to take home.
“This is one of the most fun field trips we’ve ever been on,” said one of last year’s excited students. Great for: homeschool groups and students of any age interested in art, printing, design, history, business, mechanics, job training and more. Call 513-914-5722. Let us know ahead of time if there’s something special you’d like to print…a school mascot, slogan, bookmark, whatever! We’ll search our collections.

07/20/2026

What a joy it was to have the folks from Crossroads, Mason join us in printing their own copy of The Deceleration of Independence!

05/21/2026

We are getting ready for the BIG day!!!

03/24/2026

02/16/2026

I wanted to share that I had an incredible experience this weekend. I was able to travel back to 1453 and assist Johannes Gutenberg with the printing of his Bible. It was truly a thrill.