The process is messy, requires some manual labor and takes meticulous detail and attention to complete perfectly. But the old-fashioned and intricate ways of the letterpress are gaining popularity in ...

Nothing speaks of “old world comforts’ more than a glass of finely aged liquor and the traditional letterpress printing process. The combination of the two evokes ...

A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.

Starting with inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s, letterpress printing using movable types revolutionised the world, making mass printing effortless and ushering in an era of easily accessible ...

They stopped making the Heidelberg Windmill printing press in the late 1970s because technology had moved on and we were headed, whether we knew it then or not, into an age where more and more of what ...

Traditional letterpress printing is a beautiful, time-honored tradition that has survived over 500 years. But within the past few decades, modern computers have led these classic machines to their ...

Did you know that John Dunlap, famed for printing the Declaration of Independence, apprenticed here in Lancaster? Or that the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the Constitution, was printed ...

When Claire Battershill took part in the printing fellowship program at Massey College in 2009, she discovered its cast iron printing presses were far more than simply relics of a bygone era. For many ...