Links to other sites of interest to letterpress printers

ExcelsiorPress.org

Other Links of Interest to Letterpress Printers:
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(List initially compiled by Valerie Coombe)
- http://www.museumofprinting.org/
- http://members.aol.com/aapa96/lpress.html- The American Amateur Press Association links page
Publications

The Printer - monthly for letterpress

337 Wilson Street Findlay OH 45840
Contact publisher: Michael Phillips

Printing Museums

The Olde Mill House Gallery and Printing Museum, Old Homosassa, Florida
Excelsior Press Museum Pages - under development..
MUST SEE!: http://briarpress.org The Briar Press online Letterpress Museum and Letterpress reference center
From our Friends Down Under: The Penrith Museum of Printing in Penrith, NSW Australia.
AAPA Complete List of dozens of Printing Museums: http://members.aol.com/aapa96/museums.htm
A page on the Sigwalt Press - and others. http://clintock.com/first_floor/living_room/glass_case/sigwalt.php
Letterpress Printing in the 60's - http://letterpressprinting.com.au/

Video

Excelsior Press Videos
London School of Printing - 1986 Letterpress vs computer
Duane Scot - Scot Free Press - Ten Presses and How They Work
Chicago hand Bookbinders - Hand Bookbinding circa 1961
A whole selection of entertaining letterpress videos can be found at http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource/movies/
See a Kluge Running at http://www.press817.com/kluge.mov
Stan Nelson's series on punchcutting and type casting

Courses and Forums and Articles regarding Printing and Bookbinding

Heavy Metal Madness: First Day at Letterpress High - a series of articles about learning letterpress today.
New York City - The Center for Book Arts
Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Dawson Print Shop -
Hamburg, Germany - Forum Book Arts in Hamburg - contemporary events in and references to the world of Book Arts
New York City: MUST SEE!: INTRODUCTION TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY - David S. Rose / Five Roses Press / New York, NY
Indiana - Blue Stone Folk School Introduction to Letterpress
Chicopee, Mass - Letterpress Workshops at Letterpress Things

Where to find historical equipment for yourself:

PrintEquip.com- - the web's original, largest and best - used printing equipment website - find antique presses, shops, typecasters for sale or donation
eBay.com - the most popular flea market / auction site for letterpress stuff ever!
Briar Press Classifieds

Where to print

Printmaking Council of New Jersey - North Branch (Hunterdon County)

Treadles for C&P & Pearl Presses - Hern Ironworks $125 (Jan 2008)
Type, Presses and letterpress information and supplies:

BRIAR PRESS' listing of over 50 Type Foundries
AAPA's listing of Type Foundries
DaleGuild Type Foundry - Theo Rehak - the last man alive casting quality ATF Foundry Type on Barth Casters
NA Graphics, Silverton, Colorado - Type, Vandercook and other letterpress parts & supplies
Hot Metal Home page - listing of hot metal type casters
The Sind National Type Foundry - Jaipur, India
The Sind Type Foundry - Still casting type in India

About Type Foundries in India - by a Canadian who visited in person

Stempel Foundry in Europe -
David Bolton's Excellent website all about Type Cases
Skyline Type Foundry - casting fonts of hand-set monotype fonts - nice stuff!
The Vandercook Press site begun by Mark Wilden, managed now by Paul Moxon -
INK - NA Graphics Ink by the pound, by the tube
List of active Type Foundries by AAPA
Letterpress Things - Chicopee, MA - Selling all sorts of letterpress tools, parts, etc...
http://www.metaltype.co.uk/ METAL TYPE is the place for Printers and Typesetters who remember the old days of Letterpress Printing to come and reminisce.
Hubbard Type Foundry - UK
Quaker City Type - Honey Brook, PA - 610-942-3637 (Briar Press listing)

Letterpress Equipment - new

Thompson Cabinet Company, Luddington, Michigan

Ink rollers for C&P, Gordon, Vandercook and Kelsey Presses

Photo engravings, Photo Polymer printing plates

Embossing dies: Universal Engraving (these guys have been around for EVER...)

Owosso Graphic Arts - over 50 years in the business making dies and engravings for letterpress printing, embossing and foil stamping. - Michigan
Photo-Polymer Plates

Box Car Press- Photo Polymer printing plates and supplies - New England

NA Graphics - Photo polymer Plates - Colorado

Photo Polymer Plates by Gene Becker in New York

Kelsey Excelsior Presses - More information and Kelsey-specific references

MISCELLANEOUS

Build your own printing press - Alissa Jones' blog
A great and very complete Treatise on the History and Technology of INKS

More information about Chandler & Pricess Presses

Excerpts from Fred William's "Type & Press " are made available to us by the APA on their web site.

"C&P - Pressman's Favorite" by Fred Williams published in Type & Press in 1977

Fred William's excellent essay on Adjusting ink rollers on a Platen Press

Press and Printing Technical Manuals - http://www.boxcarpress.com/flywheel/
Organizations

http://www.linotype.org/
American Typecasting Fellowship (ATF)
American Printing Association
http://www.letterpressprinters.org/
British Printing Society

Some of our Letterpress Friends

Amy's "Alice Louise Press" http://www.alice-louise.com/
Liz Libre's "Linda and Harriet" press http://www.lindaandharriett.com/ (blog1 blog2)
New Printers' Blogs:

http://poppyletterpress.blogspot.com/2007/10/problems.html

Rich Polinski's Front Room Press in Milford, NJ

Interesting Letterpress examples

http://www.beastpieces.com/

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