The Uncommon Press

The Uncommon Press is a modern reconstruction of an English Wooden Common Press from the period 1770-1790. It was designed and manufactured by a group of RIT students: Mechanical Engineering majors Seth Gottlieb, Ferris Nicolais, and Randall Paulhamus, Industrial and Systems Engineering major Veronica Hebbard, and Museum Studies major Daniel Krull. The press was commissioned by the Cary Collection in 2016, and is now a part of its Techonology Collection of letterpress printing equipment.