Modern letterpress technique combines the very old with the very new.

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Letterpress dominated printing for over 500 years, after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type along with the first mechanical press in the mid-1400s.

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The manufacturers of letterpresses stopped producing new units in the 1960s and 70s.

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My press was made in 1950, other than a few modern improvements, these old presses are operated with the same technique used for hundreds of years.

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Original Plates, wood type and metal type are still in use, but I don’t have any,  I use photo-polymer plates. Photo-polymer plates are made from computer generated artwork, thus allowing for more versatility. Any art and text  assembled on your computer can be made into a plate. Clean line art is the best, but even gradient images letterpress tolerably well. Text of course prints amazingly and is what letterpress is known for… Type with texture.