Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig and Elsner+Flake Designstudios signed a cooperation contract to digitize and distribute type faces from the museum's unique collection of type matrices and hot metal type.

The museum is unique for its collection of lead and wood type, type matrices, composing and casting machines, hand-, platen-, and cylinder presses, rescured by Eckehart SchumacherGebler since the end of the German Democratic Republic and gave them a new home in the former factory building of Offizin Haag-Drugulin. This way, SchumacherGebler saved precious relicts from the past and gave them a new home and a new field of application. It is not yet well known, that besides these casting and printing machines the valuable collection of thousandes of lead and wood types for hand composition, European and Oriental type matrices, letter patterns and masterfully-cut steel punches has been continuously growing over the last 20 years. The museum's new director Dr. Susanne Richter initiated to save these untapped treasures by conserving them for future generations. This will be done in cooperation of Elsner+Flake Designstudios. As active members of the foundation of the museum Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake will support and associate this project.