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Featured Workshops

Saturday, September 11, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

This is the prerequisite for our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

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Saturday, September 18, 10am - 6pm

Creative letterpress for AIGA / Baltimore

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses. Registration is throu

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More Upcoming Workshops

Saturday, September 25, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

This is a technical letterpress workshop.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Technical basics for setting up and printing multicolor posters, books and more on our flatbed presses to get big results.

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Sunday, September 26, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

Printing on the workhorse of the early 20th-century.

6 working hours, $120.00. The C&P (ours is motorized) runs at 700 impressions per hour and is great for printing and scoring cards or other small items.

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Saturday, October 9, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for the Delaware Art Museum

6 working hours & light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress using wood & metal type without the technical details to produce a joint creative book project.

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Sunday, October 10, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

Prerequisite for all our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

Read more

 
Saturday, October 23, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for Philadelphia University / Advanced Typography with Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience typography via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses.

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Sunday, October 24, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for Philadelphia University / Advanced Typography with Jen Neuhoff

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience typography via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses.

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Saturday, October 30, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for Philadelphia University / Advanced Typography with Jenny Profy

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience typography via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses.

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Sunday, October 31, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for Philadelphia University / Advanced Typography with Frank Baseman

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience typography via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses.

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Saturday, November 6, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for Art Institute of Philadelphia / Diane Zatz

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience typography via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses.

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Sunday, November 7, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

This is the prerequisite experience for all of our letterpress workshops.

6 working hours plus light lunch, $120. Handsetting type with a composing stick, locking up a form, printing a small edition on a tabletop press, and clean up.

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Saturday, November 13, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for the Delaware Art Museum

6 working hours & light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress using wood & metal type without the technical details to produce a joint creative book project.

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Saturday, November 20, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

Working with a flatbed cylinder press

6 working hours plus a light lunch, $120.00. The basics to setting up and printing on one of the simpler presses for getting big results. One of our workhorses.

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Sunday, November 21, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

This is a technical letterpress workshop.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Technical setup and operation of the floor model platen press (motorized and treadled), working with handset type, polymer plates, makeready, and registration.

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Sunday, December 5, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

Prerequisite for all our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

Read more

 
Saturday, December 11, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for the Delaware Art Museum

6 working hours & light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress using wood & metal type without the technical details to produce a joint creative book project.

Read more

 
Saturday, December 18, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

This is a technical letterpress workshop.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Technical setup and operation of the floor model platen press (motorized and treadled), working with handset type, polymer plates, makeready, and registration.

Read more

 
Sunday, December 19, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

Working with a flatbed cylinder press

6 working hours plus a light lunch, $120.00. The basics to setting up and printing on one of the simpler presses for getting big results. One of our workhorses.

Read more