![[APHA Logo]](../../images/APHA_LOGO_COLOR-1x1.gif){kind=logo} The American Printing History Association APHA's 25th Annual Conference
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On the Digital Brink On October 20-22, 2000, the annual conference for the American Printing History Association took place in Rochester, N.Y., at Rochester Institute of Technology. Hosted by RIT's renowned Cary Graphic Arts Collection, the conference featured a two-fold theme: a review of accomplishments in the field of book history over the last century and a look at how some of the newer imaging technologies are being used by scholars to study book and graphic arts history. An exciting schedule of events began on Friday evening, October 20, with a reception in the Cary Collection, featuring an exhibition of rare printers' manuals, followed by a keynote address by Robert Bringhurst, author of The Elements of Typographic Style. The conference continued on Saturday, October 21 with a full day of presentations, including Kay Amert of the University of Iowa on the digital comparison of sixteenth-century types and Robert Johnston of RIT's Imaging Science Center on the optical enhancement of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Archimedes Palimpsest. A representative from Octavo Corporation discussed the company's experiences in publishing CD-ROM facsimiles of rare books, while RIT's Frank Romano talked about the effect that digital printing technologies are having on the nature of book publishing. On Saturday evening, conference participants were invited to a banquet at the famed Oak Hill Country Club, host of the 1995 Ryder Cup, with after-dinner activities included a book auction.
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