Recently in my Typography class we had an assignment to make a business card, but we had to use the "old school" printing presses. We were assigned to design the business card, and then hand pick each letter, group them, and manually print each of them. It was a lot of work, preparation and then 4 hours of just printing and cleaning up. I learned a lot and I think they came out OK.
Here is just a picture of my email part. I handpicked each letter and in the end found it was too long. I had then put them all back and find another font and then take all those characters and put them into my composition. End of the day, it helped me appreciate computers.
