his two-day workshop is designed as an introduction to letterpress printing and hand typesetting. It also serves well as a refresher for those of you who want to review and practice basic skills.

You can expect to learn the lay of the case, set and justify lines of type, make up a color form, letterspace type, use a slug cutter, and kern type on a Hamilton saw.

You will also learn to print. You will learn how to operate a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press (there are two in the shop) and a Vandercook 325G. Topics to be explored will be packing the press, making ready the form, locking up type, adjusting the form rollers, and fine inking and impression.

Each participant will print a multi-colored broadside in a small edition, six copies to be shared with the other participants.

No previous experience is required.

(This workshop is not currently on the schedule. You may to request that we offer it sometime in the future.)