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About Letterpress Printing

Letterpress printing is a relief printing process in which inked type, engravings or cuts are pressed against (or kiss) a substrate (paper, chipboard, etc...), leaving an impression much like a stamp. The inherent charm of this method lies in the imperfections and hand-printed nature of the process, which makes each print slightly different, a far cry from the automated approach of modern-day printing, which aims for no variances from one print to the next. This definition is partially borrowed from an older version of the Starshaped Press Web site - http://www.starshaped.com

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Saved from the Scrapper

There’s a nice story here about a 1911 Chandler & Price being saved from scrap yard, and installed in a museum…

I recently discovered a rural Michigan turn-of-the-century print shop exhibit in the Michigan State University museum, near my house. Sadly, there’s next to zero reference to it on their website, and it could certainly be a working-exhibit. I’ve been thinking about contacting administrators there and asking about doing some demonstrations. They have a nice Washington press, and an old proof press, that was either an older Vandercook, or Challenge. I couldn’t see the name from my vantage point, and it was slightly obscured.

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