Saturday, 5 November 2016

Letterpress

Letterpress

Letterpress is a form of print using a printing press. The process creates many copies produced by repeating a direct impression of ink against paper. Letterpress was the first way of producing printed letterforms, it was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in mid 15th century. It was mainly used for newspapers and books for education.

To create letterpress by hand, hold the composing stick and place the metal type. Place Lead between each line of type. To line up each line of type, place the longest line first then line up the shorter lines of type. Ensure you place the type from left to right. With spacing material, the prompts are called ‘em spacing’ which are the same size as a lowercase o. To lock the type in place Quoins, this will stop the type falling out. The ink used for printing is oil based ink. To clean up use vegetable oil to remove the oil based ink.


A sample I created using letterpress.

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