Andreas Biörkman had trained as printer in Stockholm and been foreman in the last Keyser printing house when he was appointed academic printer in Åbo in October 1711. He was active in Åbo until July 1713 when the printing equipment was moved to Stockholm. Biörkman, however, in 1714 became foreman in the academic printing house in Uppsala, run by J.H. Werner. Biörkman continued as Werner’s foreman until 1720, when he bought the Laurelius printing house in Stockholm. He then ran his own business until his death in July 1728. His widow continued the printing house for a couple of years.