---

• n  printing from a plate with raised characters

• Carolyn Fraser, a letterpress printer in Melbourne, Australia, adopts a different metaphor to explain the problem.
• The time may come when offset speed will compete on near-equal terms with letterpress.
• But letterpress printers no longer sneer at offset.

• relief printing

News & Articles

---

• Freight Shed Alliance offers exhibit, dinner
  BATH — The Bath Freight Shed Alliance will feature the work by artist, farmer and community organizer Maina Handmaker. Her black paper cutouts and letterpress prints inspired by her time at Milkweed Farm in Brunswick and daily work at Six River Farm in Bowdoinham will be on exhibit at the Freight Shed today through Sunday, which is the first of the Full Moon Dinners. read more
  June 21, 2013 - The Times Record
• Neenah Paper commissions limited edition letterpress print to #RebuildMoore; proceeds to help bring architectural ...
  ALPHARETTA, Ga., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Neenah Paper hopes to help stimulate a boost in giving to help rebuild tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla. with the sale of a powerfully simple, limited edition run of graphic letterpress prints. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated...
  June 18, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Brooks on Beer: 'Why Beer Matters'
  Craft beer columnist Jay Brooks tells the tale of an expat beer writer's Kindle essay and how it spurred not only a handmade, letterpressed book but the resurrection of an extinct Polish beer style.
  June 18, 2013 - Inside Bay Area

Quotes

---

• Tom Wise in Rockford Register Star
  Color printing has changed so much, and new machines are doing astronomical things,Wise said. "But a computer can never match the quality of a letterpress."
• Augustus John in Telegraph.co.uk
  Corresponding with a friend about the subject of biography, Cardinal Newman wrote: "My own notion of writing a life is: to do it by letters, and to bring in as little letterpress of one's own as possible: It is far more real, and therefore...