Letterpress

Take a trip through print’s illustrious past

Printing offices of the not-so-distant past were alive with the noisy mutterings of temperamental thousand-parted survivors from the golden age of machinery. Today these have been replaced by near...

The Liquorice Press invests in Shuttleworth MIS

After trialling three different systems, The Liquorice Press has invested in a full MIS, its second in 12 years of business.

History of Monotype explored in new book

A new book charting the history of Monotype has been published, and includes a dedication to the late PrintWeek columnist and print historian Lawrence Wallis.

St Bride Foundation to expand printing workshop

Reverend Canon Dr Alison Joyce, the new rector at St Bride’s Church, has formally unveiled the replica Dürer Press at the St Bride Foundation printing workshop, which is set to be expanded thanks to...

New old press at SBF provides hands-on history

A reproduction of an early wooden press, based on an illustration by Dürer, has been installed at the St Bride Foundation Print Workshop.

Q&A: Nick Hand, director, The Letterpress Collective

Nick trained as a typographer and says he has loved type, ink and paper ever since. He recently completed an epic cycle ride from Bristol to Mainz in Germany on ‘the printing bike’, carrying an Adana...

Overmatter: Presstival

Overmatter yearns for a holiday. Fortunately, a printing Wayzgoose is inked in Overmatter’s diary for a few weeks hence.

Overmatter: on your bike

Overmatter is delighted to report that a print project with a difference has smashed its Kickstarter funding target.

Killer app: Dekkle helps highlight plight of endangered apes

Did you know there were only 880 mountain gorillas left in the world? Probably not. This was a shocking figure brought home all the more powerfully by the latest ‘Project Hangup’ exhibition, entitled...

Vintage Heidelberg prints Glastonbury newspaper

A 1957 Heidelberg OHZ-S cylinder letterpress is being used to print Glastonbury festival’s free newspaper, The Glastonbury Free Press, for the second year running.