https://www.scmp.com/rss/330537/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com You know those pretty cards you get with little indents on each word? Those are made with letterpress printers. Unfortunately, these machines are few and far between today.  Yam Wai-sang is the second-generation owner of Kwong Wah Printing Company in Hong Kong, part of a dying breed of printers trying to keep this art alive. https://www.scmp.com/culture/why-man-wants-keep-one-hong-kongs-last-letterpress-print-shops-alive/article/3200736?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/why-man-wants-keep-one-hong-kongs-last-letterpress-print-shops-alive/article/3200736?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:56:51 +0000 While the city of Hong Kong sleeps, the presses at the South China Morning Post’s Tai Po factory are in full gear. A day here begins at 3 p.m., when the factory starts receiving proofs of the next day’s paper. Every hour, each of the facility’s 18 presses churns out 50,000 to 60,000 copies. They don’t stop until 6 a.m. the next day. “Even in the worst typhoons, we have to go to work,” says Clare Chu, the plant’s operations director. This is the life that the factory’s 95 workers have chosen.... https://www.scmp.com/videos/inside-one-hong-kongs-last-newspaper-factories/article/3000229?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/videos/inside-one-hong-kongs-last-newspaper-factories/article/3000229?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:41:14 +0000