Yes we’re ready to return to regularly scheduled Saturday mornings from 9 to noon. We’ll be there with lots of new projects and even a new press. Our C&P has been replaced by a 1917 Golding Jobber. The extreme cold has kept us from previously unplanned winter work so we hope to have it and some other acquisitions sorted out and set up for the opening.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The print shop will be closed in January and February. In fair weather you may find us in working on some exciting new projects but otherwise count on visiting us the first Saturday of March. Watch the web site for other updates along the way as well.
On September 20, 2025 the print shop will be closed. Come visit us at our booth at the Lancaster Printers’ Fair from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm at 2901 Willow Street Pike, Willow Street, PA 17584.
Come seek us out on Main Street from 11 am – 4 pm. Print a souvenir on a late 1800’s Sigwalt tabletop press. The print shop will be closed today and the next two weeks. See you in August.
We have acquired a collection of wood type from Hocking Printing and are in the process of organizing and cataloging it. The attached document gives a rough sample of almost all of it though there are some errors in sorting it and not very much progress at all in naming it. Most of the names provided are only rough attempts for us to keep it organized. Any assistance in giving the fonts their original names would be appreciated.
Click here to open a pdf of the collection.
The print shop will greet the new year with a vacation of sorts. We won’t be scheduled to be open until March 1 when we resume our Saturday mornings from 9 to noon schedule. Someone may be there by chance on warmer days because much work was left to be done from 2024. And if you are from away and plan to be in town we’d be glad to schedule a special opening for you. Just email Randy at randy@conestogapress.org.
With the recent acquisition of wood type we have much to learn about it. Shop volunteer Paul found this great presentation from the Humanities Research Center.
No one will be in the Print Shop on Saturday, September 21, but you can see us and a bunch of other Printers in Maryland.
Thanks to a generous donation from Julie Hocking of Hocking Printing Company, publisher of the Shopping News in Ephrata, we have a new (old) No. 14 Pearl printing press. We plan to give it the care it needs to print again, but it’s a beauty to us just as it stands. Come check it out.
In answering a question about printing cuts I found that the International Printing Museum had this great video demonstrating the process.
