The Tramp Printers System-Agnostic Book design: Jay Dragon and

Book design: Jay Dragon and Ruby Lavin

their more proximate roots in ‘60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock

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The Tramp Printers System-Agnostic Book design: Jay Dragon andForgotten Trails of the Travelling Typographers The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeymans card and a few basic tools, these itinerant typographers criss crossed the continent for more than a century, train hopping from newspaper to newspaper. To the tramp printer, personal autonomy and adventure were far more valuable