REXBURG, IDAHO—cleaning pieces of metal, and spreading ink in typesetting to print documents in a Grandin printing press might seem a little out of style for many of us, but not for a group of college students that are part of a business program from Brigham young university Idaho. The students decided to start their own entrepreneurial business and with it find a unique way to print their products.

Andrew Polish: “So Part of the IBC is that we have a whole company of different teams, and at the start of the semester we get together and try to come up with an idea and then they presented to the whole company and then one of the members of the team, specifically this gentleman behind me had seen the process of the printing before and he had just thought that it would be a neat idea to maybe print some type of document, specifically a church document that people could have of this unique press.

The students are using the printing press that is now housed in the David O. Mckay library on the BYU–Idaho campus and is one of three presses constructed from molds that had been taken of the original press.

Tiffany Blyae- “It’s like a replica, it is a replica one of three presses that first printed the first book of Mormon” though the color and woodwork may be different, every imperfection mimics that of the original Grandin printing press, the handles, the typesetting, paper, and ink are the same used in the old times.

"Printing documents in this historical press might seem simple. However, there is a lot more work that goes on behind the scene.”

Cleaning the metal pieces, obtaining ink, and adding the paper to the press in a careful way are just some of the many steps that have to be taken carefully before starting printing.

Polish: “ Laying the type was probably the l Andrew ongest tedious part; there is these little tiny pieces of lead. We kept track of the hours that took us about a hundred man-hours just to lay the type. From there we had to print some copies and proof them. In order to get to our final product it took us over a hundred and thirty man-hours."

Thousands of this characters have been use in order to print documents in this printing press, from the second floor of the library of Brigham Young University Idaho I’m Melissa Ciraiz, I-news.