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Tomasz Ratajczak, a teacher from Bielsko-Biała, has a love for letters – he has thousands of them. In an unassuming garage next to his school, he created a unique studio where he revives the traditions of the ancient art of printing. His workshop is a place where a passion for craftsmanship meets history. Tomasz maintains the skills typical of a typesetter – someone responsible for hand-setting text from individual fonts – while also educating younger generations in this field. In his studio, he demonstrates processes that were crucial to printing years ago. Here, you can see what lettersetting, preparing matrices, and working with traditional printing presses were like.