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Inside a former garrison chapel at Beggars Bush, once a British army barracks and later a base for the fledgling Irish Free State, the National Print Museum preserves the machinery and craft of a trade that shaped public life for five centuries. It opened in 1996, growing out of a determination to save the presses, type and tools being scrapped as hot-metal printing gave way to digital production, and the collection now ranges from hand-operated presses to Linotype and Monotype casting machines....