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An image of an article with the heading The Silent Printer.

In this column, Ray F. Stallo publishes portions of a letter from A. W. Wright, dean of Silent Printers discussing young printers, the printing trade,…

A color photograph of a large room with several large, red machines lined up along the side. Each machine has a panel of buttons along with a massive roll of paper being fed into the topmost part of the machine.

The Press Room

At the last stage of the printing process, the various components of the paper come together in the Press Room. In this room, large printing presses…

A color photograph of a composing desk with several items laid on it including papers, a line gauge, roller for wax paper, two pairs of scissors, and a knife with a retractable blade.

The Paste-up Workstation for Employees in the Composing Room

Work in the composting room started when an employee was assigned a layout. They would use various tools to paste-up the page, a line gauge, roller…

The Engraving Room

After pages were completed in the Composing Room, negative copies were created in the Film Output machine in the Engraving Room. These negatives were…

A black and white photograph of a large work room with several rows long tables, each with various items like papers scattered across them, on each side of the room. In the very back of the photo are lines of linotype machines. There are people scattered about the workspace.

The Composing Room

The Composing Room was the workspace for most Deaf printers at The Washington Post.

A color photograph of a large composing room with several rows of long composing desks. Each segment of the desks have large, uncut papers with newspaper designs on them. In the background there are people scattered across these rows, working at the composing desks.

The Composing Room

The pages of the paper begin to take shape in this room as employees use special tools and techniques to layout each page of text and images.

In this photograph two fair-skinned young men in aprons work next to an industrial printing press. In the background a fair-skinned man in a shirt and tie supervises.

Tennessee School for the Deaf, Printing (1946)

Many Deaf residential schools included print shops as part of the campus. Large and expensive printing machines were often a feature of these shops.

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