Letterpress 1: The Basics of Printing

Letterpress 1 is a beginner-friendly introduction to the centuries-old craft of printing with metal type. Students will be given a printing demonstration using our tabletop C&P Pilot press, then will compose metal type using one or two sentences of their own writing, or a favorite pithy quote. They will be walked through the process of proofreading and “locking up” their type, inking the press, an...