our main aims...

1. To help museums to purchase items of historical or seminal technical interest relating to the printing and allied trades.
   
2. To encourage and support the effective display of items of the kind referred to above.
   
3. To facilitate the removal, storage and restoration of relevant printing machines and equipment under threat of destruction and to find permanent homes for them with public access.
   
4. To work towards a national museum of printing.
   
5. To encourage public institutions to acquire archival material connected with the printing and allied trades – in written, visual and recorded oral form.
   
6. To encourage an interest in printing history at all educational levels, and further research in the subject.