[1] Located in the Los Angeles suburbs, the museum consults for Hollywood and has provided rentals of vintage printing presses for numerous television and movie productions.

The collection has grown with significant donations and acquisitions under the leadership of the museum's board of trustees and its founding curator and executive director, Mark Barbour.

He made his living as an adult as a printer, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack, and was quite proud of his occupation.

"[6][7] The collection includes printing presses from the age of Mark Twain, who also had little formal education but gained knowledge as a printer's apprentice for the Hannibal Journal.

This helps to fulfill the museum's ongoing mission, and Lindner's vision, of being a place where visitors can not only see vintage printing equipment, but see how it is used.