In her North Berkeley print shop, Olivia San Mateo practices the centuries-old craft of letterpress printing. She designs the work, sets the type and prints on enormous machines that seem medieval in ...

Old-style printers and print suppliers gather Saturday to hawk originals and exchange trade tips at the annual Letterpress Printers' Fair. The event, part how-to, part trade fair and part art sale, is ...

BAY ST. LOUIS -- Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. left behind his job as a computer programmer with AT&T to pursue his true passion, the art of letterpress printing. He became a master of his craft and left the ...

The print shop is packed, from the line of hand-cranked printers churning out personalized notebooks to the area where helpers lock type into metal frames. Outside, people peek through the windows to ...

A letterpress — a 5 x 8 foot Kelsey tabletop to be exact — thrilled Miami University's Erin Moore Beckloff as a not-so-typical wedding gift. She could print her own thank-you notes and, yes, launch a ...

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Learn letter press printing, the history and the basics, with an upcoming workshop from the .918 Club of Lancaster. The workshop’s comes at a time when the nonprofit club’s raising money to restore a ...

“I knew the minute I said yes, I had changed my life forever.” Laura Baisden sits next to her chipped gray printing press, a massive block of metal at the center of her Douglas Avenue storefront in ...

Letterpress is a medium of endless possibilities. This course will start with the basics: ink, rollers, type, paper and a press, and introduce the setting of type, locking up a form and using spacing ...

Before the Internet, the @ and # symbols were relatively obscure. Unless you were an accountant or a bookkeeper, you simply never used them. On the typewriter, they were largely ignored, and in a ...