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Donald Milham Award: In the Print
The second half of the 20th century was a period of growth and affluence for British industry; for the printing industry it was a period of rapid change. Letterpress had gone just about as far as it could go in relation to reproduction quality and was slowly and surely slipping over the precipice.
The copying machine spurned by the jobbing printer, was taken up by newcomers and with the aid of the Varityper a whole new industry was created. Later the introduction of the desktop computer with digital scanning revolutionised colour printing and brought offset-printed low-cost colour to even the humblest brochure.
It is important that these changes are recorded for future generations and the best persons to do this are the very persons who were involved at the time. Accordingly the Printing Historical Society has created the Donald Milham Archive and invites members of the printing industry to send factual details of those difficult times and at the same time possibly win cash prizes for their entries.
Donald Milham was a letterpress machine minder and his son Peter Milham, wishing to use part of his father's legacy to commemorate his memory, funded the project with Rob Clayton.
Open to anyone from tea lady to chairman who spent three years or more in the British printing industry, all entries have been archived in the St Bride Library, for access by future printing historians.