Originally ordered by a printer in Madrid in 1903 the B1 sheetfed letterpress machine was installed two years later in 1905.

Since its discovery in a Moscow street in 1958 by Bolshoi printer Ivanovich Tushilkin the machine has been put to use churning out more than 10m posters. Among them a poster celebrating ballerina Galina Ulanova's stage jubilee that was printed onto pink silk.