Things from Research

"the almost universal automation of commercial printing is designed to minimise the need for human intervention and, it this way, to reduce the possibility of errors and serious flaws in quality"

"there is more to the handmade article than the human factor that produced it; something about the handmade object, or its results, has always been valued"

Look At:
-William Morris (Arts&Crafts Movement "handicraft")
-A2 GRAPHICS/SW/HK
-Frost Design (Vince Frost)

"the handmade object states its speculative nature by the fact that eah piece, (even with letterpress) is and original rather than a copy of the original"

"fitness for purpose" futurists (cheap, standard, mass production) durability

"there is an element of fashion in most design, but inevitably more so in printed matter designed to function for just a short length of time"

"in an effort to seperate creative endeavours from financial speculation some book artists hae attempted to make their books valueless"

All quotes taken from "Letterpress: The Allure of the Hand-Made"