After spending some time in the print making studio, I learned a whole new version of the idea of “hands on”. For as long as I can remember, I have thought of reading a hard copy of a book as being hands on. Then on yesterday, I realized the real hands on approach is actually the making of the book. Although the machine we saw yesterday is not used anymore to print, I was still overly impressed with the amount of work it took just to make a six line paragraph. Just the preparation alone took up an enormous amount of time. I think this version of print really gives a correct name to sometihng being “hands on”.