Category Archives: Printing Presses

A commission for ilovetypography.com

August 23, 2009 – 9:58 pm

Recently I was commissioned by John Boardley of  ilovetypography.com fame to letterpress print a typographical design that he set in the recently released digital typeface  Restraint. I was delighted to have been asked and had a 16 gauge magnesium relief plate etched from John’s artwork for printing on my 1963 Swiss-made Gietz Art Platen printing [...]

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The highly ornamented Columbian Press

May 17, 2009 – 9:17 pm

The Columbian is by far the most lavishly decorated of all iron handpresses, although it must be noted that many of the embellishments function perfectly well as the working parts of the Press. The English writer T. C. Hansard once commented (shortly after the first Columbian Presses appeared in London) that: “If the merits of [...]

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1888 Wharfedale Press – Project Update

October 13, 2008 – 7:30 pm

During the past weekend, tentative attempts were made to bring the largest printing press in our collection back into production for book and poster work. Our Wharfedale cylinder press was manufactured in 1888 by W. Dawson & Sons in Otley, West Yorkshire, and whilst it is one of the smaller machines of its type, it [...]

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