The printmaking department at TasTAFE in Hobart is the proud owner of three 100-year-old letterpresses and Gill Bantoft is the man giving the large steel contraptions a second life. When it is up and ...

WASHINGTON — In the basement of a brick building on O Street in Northwest, Emily Doenlen, 26, fires up a roughly 1,400-pound, 1960s-era Vandercook cylinder letterpress machine. The machine screeches ...

They sit in a shop in an alley behind East Gongti Road in Beijing, two bulky machines that seem to belong more to a museum or an art gallery. But for Josh Durham, a history teacher from the US, the ...

There’s not much that ben webster, a stationery designer in Salt Lake City, Utah, won’t do to get his hands on another letterpress machine. In late 2003, Webster, who produces cards using that ...

Letterpress printing revolutionized the literary world in the 15th century and was extensively used until the mid 20th century. There are still many old letterpress machines hanging around, but most ...

The sound of printing in a letterpress machine has a certain rhythm to it. The ink, which is evenly spread on the platen or the flat platform of the press; the wheels running while copies of an image ...

Five engineering students are leaving something behind as they graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology—a handmade tabletop letterpress to join the esteemed collection of historic 19th century ...