If you think your office printer is ancient, always getting paper jams or printing 50 copies when you only wanted five, then be grateful you’re not using some of the printers in this project from Xavier Antin.Utilizing four different generations of printers, Antin has set up a printing chain that spans from 1880 to 1976, with each printer laying down a different color of the printing standard CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). It starts with a stencil duplicator from 1880, then journeys through a spirit duplicator from 1923, a Laser printer from 1969, and finally an inkjet printer from 1976. The kinetic sculpture, entitled Just In Time will take the form of an installation and a limited edition (100 copies) book called Just in Time, or A Short History of Production. The project creates a fascinating record of nearly a century’s worth of printing history and the pages that will make up the accompanying book, which are surprisingly beautiful, serve as a creative time capsule of sorts, essentially traveling through time and unifying these similar but disparate machines by creating a physical paper lineage between them.Check out images from the book below:
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