70-year-old Hong Kong Printing Shop - video

[Dave Hughes]

Here's an update on this video story that appeared on the site last year: One of Hong Kong's last Letterpress Printers - video

Yam Wai-sang has decided to keep his print shop running as a kind of letterpress museum:


https://youtu.be/Ur3EVy7MCp8

Yam Wai-sang is the second-generation operator of a printing shop in Hong Kong. He hopes to let more people know that letterpress printing, one of China's Four Great Inventions, once had a glorious era in Hong Kong.

Youtube felt that it was necessary to issue this warning to viewers of the video: "Xinhua is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government." So you have been warned!