I recently started on my adventures printing with a Vandercook letterpress. If you've ever wanted to get into letterpress printing, if you own a Vandercook and need some information about it, or if you just enjoy seeing what letterpress is all about, I invite you to take a look at this lens! You're sure to find something interesting!
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Here's what's happening on this Letterpress Lens
My Adventures in Letterpress Printing
I've been taking a letterpress class and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! If you'd like to come along for the ride, check out My SP15 Restoration Progress
Follow me as I restore a Vandercook SP15 press!
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Letterpress Stuff on eBay
eBay can be a great source of letterpress stuff!
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Letterpress Resources Around the Web
The number of letterpress resources online is growing bigger and bigger! This is a great time to get started with your own press!
- Introduction to Letterpress
- The de facto standard of beginning letterpress information. From the introduction: "Welcome to the wonderful world of letterpress printing! To start you on your way in this exciting, challenging, rewarding and anachronistic avocation, what follows is an introduction, freshly prepared for the start of the new millennium and updated to 2005, to the people, places, and online resources that will save you a great deal of time as you embark upon your letterpress activities. At the end of the document are links to dozens of other sites, many of which themselves contain links to hundreds of additional sites related to letterpress printing."
- Briar Press
- Lots of letterpress information, classified ads from around the world, yellow pages of printers, free ornament images and more.
- NA Graphics
- NA Graphics is the current owner of the Vandercook company name. Fritz is the owner and he will be happy to help you with all your Vandercook press needs.
- Vanderblog
- Resource for all knowledge related to the Vandercook presses. Awesome community!
- Vandercook Press Census
- A list of known Vandercook presses, their serials, owners, inspectors and other info.
- Vandercook Flickr Group
- See pictures of Vandercook presses and their operators.
- Letterpress Flickr Group
- Get inspiration for your next printing session!
- Letterpressed Goods on Etsy
- Etsy is home of the handmade. You'll find lots of beautiful cards and coasters here!
- Briar Press Glossary
- This page is particularly helpful to the letterpress newbie!
- Boxcar Press Boxcar Bases
- These will be particularly helpful to those focusing on printing with photopolymer plates (as opposed to hand-set metal type). Be sure to check out their portfolio page, too! They've done beautiful work.
- Owosso Graphic Arts
- for custom dies
- British Letterpress
- From the homepage: "The site is designed to help those beginning and enjoying letterpress, especially those in the UK. If you're wanting to get started straight away, have a look at the How-to Guides. If you have a little letterpress knowledge under your belt, you could have a look at the growing list of Letterpress Machines, or even offer your own contribution"
- Boxcar Training Videos
- Some quick videos to show off the basics of letterpress printing. From Boxcar Press
- Letterpress Discussion List
- Archives of LETPRESS@LISTSERV.UNB.CA
- Flurry Journal
- A Journal Among the Printers. Published by Boxcar Press.
- PPLetterpress Yahoo! Group
- From the homepage: "Founded by Gerald Lange in 2001, PPLetterpress is a forum and clearinghouse on studio-letterpress and letterpress-related typography. While the subject focus is on printing with digital type and the photopolymer plate process, the group site also encompasses related investigative and exploratory printing and typographic techniques, as well as historical and contemporary letterpress practices and concerns.
PPLetterpress serves as both a discussion list and reference site with online resources on type and typography, experimental and traditional printing, and allied interests. Members are encouraged to add resources to the site." - SFLetterpress Yahoo! Group
- From the homepage: "This is an open access network of hobby and commercial letterpress printers who are located in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, the West Coast of the United States (California, Oregon, Washington), and those from anywhere else in the world who have an interest or curiosity about letterpress printing...
The purpose of this group list is to provide an easy way to communicate with letterpress printers about any topic related to letterpress printing, including best practices, supplies, and equipment. This network is also a way to keep the art and craft of letterpress printing alive and well in the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast.
The group is completely open to allow anyone and everyone to participate. There are no dues, no fees, and no meetings to attend...just a lot of great group communication via the internet about an art, craft and skill that we all enjoy."
Letterpress Videos on YouTube
Letterpress Related Blogs
Some letterpress blogs I've discovered.
- Snap & Tumble Press
- Blog of Snap & Tumble Press. She uses an Adana Eight Five press.
- Vanderblog
- More like a bulletin board, but still very useful. Specifically for Vandercook presses.
- Adventures in Letterpress
- Blog of Sunlit Letterpress in Canada
- I Love Letterpress
- Just like it says! More of a consumer website than a printer's site.
- Anemone Letterpress
- Blog of Anemone Letterpress
- Joie Studio
- Blog of Joie Studio
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