Beth Gray

In August, I visited Francis Cupiss as part of my research for one of my summer projects.

It’s a family run printing company, in Diss, with a very interesting history.  Founded in way back in 1830 by Francis Cupiss, a veterinarian,  and prolific inventor,  came up with various recipes including salad cream, hair restorer and more famously, Constitution balls for horses.

To cater for all this Cupiss needed a Printing press for all his labels, flyers and such for his  remedies, so he bought a 1830’s Columbian Eagle Printing Press, the printing side of the business soon became more popular and nowadays the business is ran mainly as a printers.

I even got the change to give printing ago my self using the sturdy 1830’s Columbian Eagle press!