UNION GAP, Wash. - You don't go to Paper Hammer's Tieton studio for printing if you need speed and convenience. Each of the four studio's letterpresses, which all date back to the first half of the ...

The term “to make a good impression” comes from printing. In traditional letterpress printing text was set by hand in rows of metal or wooden type – the letters in mirror image – and locked into the ...

If the modern computer printer is the brain of the printing process, old-fashioned letterpress is its heart. “It’s terribly emotional and romantic,” printer Rick Von Holdt said. “It has a smell; it ...

For a long time, letterpress printing was just about the only game in town. Invented in the mid-15th century by Johannes Gutenberg, whose “Gutenberg Bible” was the first major Western book to be ...

In 1796, an imaginative Munich playwright named Alois Senefelder discovered that he could print from stone. Searching for an inexpensive way to print his plays, he inscribed the smooth and porous ...

IT IS a safe bet that at least one Christmas card you receive this year will be printed in the old-fashioned manner, by letterpress. You'll recognise it by the way the letters are pounded deep into ...