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.
Guides
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 or Selling Letterpress Equipment
Help getting rid of letterpress equipment
A Small Printing Office
The requisites for a small printing office
Equipment for your Printing Works
The building blocks of your letterpress printing works
Edmondson-style Rail Tickets
The characteristic stiff card railway tickets, and how you can re-create them