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IDDIS THE NORWEGIAN PRINTING MUSEUM AND THE NORWEGIAN CANNING MUSEUM

About the collection

Brief information about the collection’s most important themes and objects.

LETTERPRESS/ RELIEF PRINTING
Manual printing press made of iron, Heidelberg ‘Vinge’, Johannisberg rapid-press, diverse equipment for stereotyping.

Stereotype. Photo: Belén Navazo Hourcade


SETTING TYPE
Hand-setting department, type cases with a good selection of lead type, spacing material, dashes, ornaments as well as a proofing press Mechanical typesetting with line-casting machines, Linotype and Ludlow setting machines and attendant equipment.

The museum has a good selection of fonts for setting type by hand, here demonstrated by our volunteer Torstein Sæbø. Photo: Anne Lise Norheim

CLICHÈ PRODUCTION
Equipment for repro-photography and the production and mounting of clichés, plus a selection of clichés.

The cliché exhibit in the Norwegian Printing Museum’s previous exhibition. Photo: Belén Navazo Hourcade


LITHOGRAPHY
Lithography presses, a lithography table with drawing tools and other equipment, litho-stones from canning-label production, etc., collections of sardine-can labels (‘iddisar’), a wooden repro-camera.

Lithography stones in the Norwegian Printing Museum’s collections. Photo: Belén Navazo Hourcade


OFFSET AND PRINTING ON METAL
An offset machine with diverse equipment, flip-top plate-burner, offset plates and production powder for printing on cans.

Heidelberg GTO offset machine in the Norwegian Printing Museum’s collection. Photo: Belén Navazo Hourcade


ROTOGRAVURE (INTAGLIO PRINTING)
An intaglio-printing machine with related equipment and parts, rotogravure cylinder with stand.

A rotogravure cylinder. Photo: Edvard Rode


BOOKBINDING / FINISHING
Planers, presses and bookbinding equipment, embossing with gold and creating decorative effects, equipment and machines for making book-blocks and finishing.

Stamps for gold embossing. Photo: Edvard Rode


PHOTOTYPSETTING / COMPUTER PRODUCTION
A complete phototypesetting system from the firm Norsk Data, several smaller phototypesetting terminals and computer systems.

PRINTED MATERIALS
 Examples of printed materials and techniques: proofing prints, newspapers, posters, calendars, letter heads, ex libris, etc., antiquarian books, not least from the oldest printers in Norway and Stavanger

PHOTOGRAPHS
A small collection of photographs, mainly from the firm Dreyers Reproduktionsanstalt and the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad

Text: May Tove Nyrud

Main image – photo: Elisabeth Tønnessen

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