Letterpress

John started drawing lettering at school and took up printing as a student in 1963 while studying physics. He lectured on printing technology for 20 years and ran The Quarto Press, printing and...

Fine printer Benwells and design company We Made This have teamed up to create a joint promotion using limited edition packs of postcards featuring a raft of printing techniques and paper stocks.

Printing offices of the not-so-distant past were alive with the noisy mutterings of temperamental thousand-parted survivors from the golden age of machinery. Today these have been replaced by near...

After trialling three different systems, The Liquorice Press has invested in a full MIS, its second in 12 years of business.

A new book charting the history of Monotype has been published, and includes a dedication to the late PrintWeek columnist and print historian Lawrence Wallis.

Reverend Canon Dr Alison Joyce, the new rector at St Bride’s Church, has formally unveiled the replica Dürer Press at the St Bride Foundation printing workshop, which is set to be expanded thanks to...

A reproduction of an early wooden press, based on an illustration by Dürer, has been installed at the St Bride Foundation Print Workshop.

Nick trained as a typographer and says he has loved type, ink and paper ever since. He recently completed an epic cycle ride from Bristol to Mainz in Germany on ‘the printing bike’, carrying an Adana...

Overmatter yearns for a holiday. Fortunately, a printing Wayzgoose is inked in Overmatter’s diary for a few weeks hence.

Overmatter is delighted to report that a print project with a difference has smashed its Kickstarter funding target.