Everything for Letterpress and Printmaking.
Heavy duty etching press with wonderful gearing and 30″ solid steel bed 48″ long (76cm x 122cm). It comes with a starwheel which can be used instead of the handle. Believed to have come from the Bank of England in-house printing department.
Letterpress Today is the website for anything and everything to do with Arab platen presses.
Printers’ engineers experienced in moving, installation, servicing, restoration, making parts, recovering rollers, etc.
Letterpress Today is a printed journal with articles about letterpress and printmaking. Please request copies by email.
This is a term used in letterpress printing, which refers to a space reserved for the insertion of last-minute items.
Giles and Patrick installing a Victoria art platen in Staffordshire.
Recently, we have made cast-iron rails, rounces with handles, bearings and all sorts of parts for Albions. This photo is of Guy welding up a bracket for one of the five Albions in our works at the moment.
Letterpress Today Number 3 from February 2024 is now out, including articles: Whittington Press; Maurice Edwards; Boxes of Keepsakes; The Day I Met John Ryder; Sissinghurst; The British Printing Society; Marthe Armitage; The Woodbury Press; Presses to Korea; Moving to New Premises; Hot Bed Press.
