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• FROM 1906 SF EARTHQUAKE TO THE DEPOT — Letterpress Depot

  #MeetapressMonday Letterpress Depot is grateful to have two fully operational Washington-style hand iron hand presses in its collection, each with its own history.

• A rare press finds a Depot home — Letterpress Depot

  Last week, we shared the daunting move of this 1,800 pound press (more pix of the move here .) But in case you’re wondering just what is a Gally Universal Press? And why does it look like a Colt’s Ar...

• News & Notes — Letterpress Depot

  May 28, 2024 Heat pump installation has begun at the Depot! It will be so nice to have heat this winter (and dare we hope AC as the temps go up?)  Donations helped us get a start on paying for this sy...

• What an ending to Month of Printmaking! — Letterpress Depot

  Letterpress Depot printers Bryan Dahlberg, Marc Silberman and Tom Parson and volunteer Tim Vermeulian joined over 70 other makers at this year’s Small Press Fest. Note the mini-press in a box thatBrya...

• BEFORE I tell you all the presses we have... — Letterpress Depot

  I confess to a failing as a reader—I skim over lists, even though I know the author is making a point, being creative, piling on with a purpose. The only lists I loved were in Wolf Story, a book daugh...

• Blogs on Type, Presses, History — Letterpress Depot

  John Major Jenkins When John Major Jenkins passed away in 2017, he left the Depot his Campbell Century Pony press, which he spent a year industriously and lovingly restoring after he got it in 2011. ...