RIT: Top Bidder for Historic Albion Hand Printing Press

"The Kelmscott/Goudy Press will have an active life at RIT, not simply as a museum artifact, but as a working press accessible to students, scholars and printers," Steven Galbraith, curator of RIT's Cary Collection—where the press will be added—told the newspaper.

The antique press purchase was made possible by the support of 1974 RIT graduate Brooks Bower, the chairman and CEO of Louisville, KY-based envelope manufacturer Papercone Corp.