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Made in Singapore: Keeping centuries-old printing process alive at The Gentlemen's Press

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Michelle Yu, 31, is a letterpress artist who creates limited-edition prints using vintage letterpress machines.

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SINGAPORE - With its clanging cast iron and steel machinery, and with "press" in its name, some have mistaken The Gentlemen's Press for a laundromat.
But the letterpress and printing studio in Genting Lane is the antithesis to clean clothes, with its seven ink-stained printing presses - one of which is over 100 years old.
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