Letterpress printing
Why can’t we produce a computer printer that bites the page?
Posted: August 5th, 2007 under printing, typography.
Comments: 5
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Comment from Sylvia
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:43 pm
But if you go further back to manuscripts, the ink and metals floated on the page and could be scraped off. Is flat printing a happy medium or insipidity?
Comment from xensen
Time: August 5, 2007, 4:01 pm
Thanks for that observation, Sylvia
If you go back beyond ink and metal on pages you get incised letters on clay or bone, dyes on textiles, and other mediums. I think they all have their place, along with words like the ones I’m typing now, which are made of electrons.
Flat printing is the only kind I’ve done so I would like to think it doesn’t have to be insipid. Still the tactile quality of letterpress printing is uniquely satisfying when holding a book in hand.
Comment from Nancy
Time: August 6, 2007, 2:07 pm
I’ve linked to this in my blog. I started out working for old fashioned printers so I have a deep love for this kind of type.
Comment from xensen
Time: August 6, 2007, 4:58 pm
I regret never having done letterpress.
Comment from Nancy
Time: August 6, 2007, 6:17 pm
Well, the SF Center for the Book has classes all the time. I’m taking an intensive class this summer and I can hardly wait.
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