Heirloom ink evangelist travels the US with an old fashioned letter press

[Captain Long Story, US Cavalry]

Of period interest -

 

In a white, repurposed step-up van, Kyle Durrie travels the country visiting art schools, craft fairs, and even tattoo parlors to enlighten people about old-fashioned letterpress printing.

 

Ms. Durrie owns Power and Light Press in Portland, Ore., and calls her nomadic project “Moveable Type.” Since the summer, she has logged more than 100 stops in the United States. She will travel for another four months in the Type Truck that has a bunk, road maps, a heater, and an 1873 Golding Official No. 3 tabletop platen press.

 

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0105/Heirloom-ink-evangelist-travels-the-US-with-an-old-fashioned-letter-press

[Noz]

The moveable type letterpress is the modern offset press as the flint lock is to a cartridge gun.

They work, they do their job, but it's, oh, so much more difficult with the letterpress.

Been there, done that, both ways.