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.
AMR Logan Press is seeking to recruit an apprentice to learn all engineering aspects of letterpress and traditional printmaking in order to safeguard the survival of these specialist skills for the future. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the very best and become one of the few people in this country to enjoy […]
AMR Logan Press will be having a clearance sale and Open Day on Saturday 29th October 2022 from 10am until 4pm at Crown Works, 21d Orchard Road, Finedon, Northants. NN9 5JG Type cabinets, galley racks, hand rollers, paper, lead cutters, proofing presses, composing sticks, nipping presses, laying presses, blank notebooks, litho stones, compositors’ saw, workbenches, […]
Working on a delightful Barrett Albion soon to be delivered and installed in Wales.
Working on two iron hand presses: an attractive little Wood & Co. Albion from 1867 and a magnificent Columbian from thirty years earlier.
Patrick made a pattern and took it to one of our favourite foundries to have three gripper fingers cast in brass. Guy finished them on the milling machine and Patrick polished them ready to be fitted by Giles and Theo.
Patrick and Guy took a trip to local steel stockholders and came back with some big heavy steel offcuts to make a bracket for an Albion bed. It will be drilled in position and fitted by Giles and Theo.
The November 2020 edition of Letterpress Today is available… please ask for your copy.
AMR Logan Press has been busy creating a capable engineering workshop and showroom for letterpress and printmaking presses and equipment. At the same time, website designer and developer Matt Lane designed and built this website.
Although new to the world of social media, AMR Logan Press now has about 2,000 followers on Instagram under the name of amr_logan_press … www.instagram.com/amr_logan_press