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 ...

Kseniya Thomas, who studied her craft at the Gutenberg Museum in Germany, works in her letterpress studio at The Monarch. “There is still nothing like seeing the printed page come off such beautiful ...

UNION GAP, Wash. - You don't go to Paper Hammer's Tieton studio for printing if you need speed and convenience. Each of the four studio's letterpresses, which all date back to the first half of 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 ...

In the age of digital presses where anything can be printed on demand at high speed, it’s only natural there’s a renewed interest in an old-school technique like Letterpress printing. The design team ...

The letterpress was a huge leap forward for mass communication when Johannes Gutenberg perfected the moveable type machine way back in the 1450s. These days, it’s considered a specialty craft. But ...

Surviving in an obsolete industry as long as Aardvark Letterpress has requires fundamental elements of entrepreneurship. Skill, dedication, creativity and professionalism are essential. General ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we asked readers to name New Orleans area entrepreneurs they most wanted to read more about, the resulting vote led us to a new print shop in the Warehouse District that uses very old letterpress ...