We needed a poster for the film. I had been working on a poster/broadside to demonstrate Letterpress Printing. It didn't take much effort to edit the form - change "Letterpress Printing" to "Kiss the Paper" and make a nice little Letterpress Poster for the film.

These were printed on both gray chipboard and some very fine colored poster sheets. They proved to be quite popular and before I knew it, they were selling at the film showings for $25 each - and often signed by the printer who printed them.
Quite flattering, actually...

We also did a presentation at the SiverDocs film festival in Maryland - quite near to Washington, D.C.
For this event, we brought along a small table top press and demonstrated letterpress printing live and in person at the event. One of our visitors worked at the Corcoran Gallery in D.C. and, when I told her that I had recently printed a book with an artist whose work  was shown at the Corcoran, she invited me down for a visit.


Bruce Guthrie Photo - Silverdocs, 2011

Next day, we drove into D.C. together, easily found a parking space - the one reserved for her by name at The Corcoran, and then visited the library, donned white gloves to handle the prints and had a wonderful afternoon seeing some of the beautiful book art works in their collection.

When we did the show in NYC, I was very flattered by the attention paid to me as the "subject" of Fiona's documentary - and by all of the folks who bought posters from Fiona, then brought them to me to be signed and dated.

All of this attention paid to me as "simply a letterpress printer" showed me just how far we (as letterpress printers) had come with the flattering new attention paid to our craft.
It made me quite proud to be a Letterpress Printer - and even more anxious to share my knowledge of this craft.