Guides to the letterpress process, including the more esoteric parts of the craft
Letterpress printers were traditionally trained by other letterpress printers through apprentices. As commercial letterpress has declined the opportunity for personal tuition has got smaller. We’ve guides here to help you with the letterpress basics: getting the type together; using the press; selecting paper and cleaning up. We also cover buying a press and type; and looking after it all.
- Letterpress From Scratch
Getting into a letterpress mindset to begin printing
- Inspiration
Where to get that spark to begin your typographic design
- Composition
Bringing your individual metal types together
- Printing
The major part of the process
- After Printing
The crucial steps between stopping the press, and tea and buns
- Other Arts
The myriad of other specialims attached to printing
- Disposing of Equipment
Help getting rid of letterpress equipment
- A Small Printing Office
The requisites for a small printing office
- Efficiency and the Small Printer
A comprehensive look at efficiency and the small printer
- Edmondson-style Rail Tickets
The characteristic stiff card railway tickets, and how you can re-create them
