Buena Park - International Printing Museum

The International Printing Museum shows the history of the printing press. Visitors can actually watch as a printer produces a sample and see antique printing machines. Highlights of the tour are Ben Franklin's working colonial printing shop, featuring the 3rd oldest, American-made printing press; a country newspaper shop where the type was set by hand and printed on the "Grasshopper" cylinder press; the beautiful Columbian Press, invented in 1813, adorned with a golden bald eagle; the Linotype Typesetting Machine of 1890 and its competitors, the Unitype Machine and Rogers Typograph.