Letterpress

60 seconds with… Mostly Flat

Graphic designer and artist printmaker Dulcie Fulton started Mostly Flat in 2013 after she took a letterpress class that reminded her how much she loved the process.

Question mark over Jarrold Printing museum

The future of the John Jarrold Printing Museum in Norwich has been called into question because plans to redevelop the site will include demolition of its existing location.

Q&A: David Bland, sales and marketing director, Blackmore

David is 63 years old and has been in print for 47 years. He’s married to the “long suffering” Jackie, and describes himself as a “proud Englishman, bee-keeper, antidisestablishmentarian, bad speller...

Q&A: James Freemantle Proprietor, St James Park Press

James Freemantle is 38 and set up the Press in 2015 to focus on hand-made limited-edition letterpress printed books and ephemera.

How a letterpress innovator is making new impressions

"Post-digital letterpress.” Erik Spiekermann is always good with an apt phrase that works just as well in English as his native German.

Skills still make an impression

It’s apt that halfway through his interview with PrintWeek Patrick Roe spots an old Field-Marshall tractor trundling past his office window. Once a farm staple in the 1940s, these days such machines...

Cotton paper for digital and letterpress launched by Mohawk

US fine paper specialist Mohawk has launched Strathmore Impress, a “super-premium” uncoated paper made from 100% cotton fibre that can be used for digital, letterpress, engraving and foiling.

Hand's printing bike is fixed with an Adana 8x5 letterpress machine

Great Britain tour for printing bike

Nick Hand, who pedalled his ‘printing bike’ from Bristol to Gutenberg’s birthplace in Germany in 2014, is planning a new printing odyssey from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.

Inaugural Shipley Wayzgoose planned

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

Wartime escape map-printer book to launch

The story of a man who printed escape maps during the Second World War after using shower tiles to construct a lithographic press is to be published in book form.