Resources

Resources and Equipment

• Letterpress Commons – Techniques, equipment, and more.
• Letterpress Ink – Yes, that and instructional videos and more.
• Hanco Ink – Exactly
• Letterpress Things – Great supplier in Massachusetts and at shows.
• Bindery Tools LLC – Letterpress and bindery equipment in Myerstown, PA.
• NA Graphics – Letterpress Supplies
• Boxcar Press – Letterpress Supplies
• Owosso Graphic Arts – Engraving, custom letterpress cuts
• Art Boards – Woodcut blocks .918″ high.
• American Printing Equipment and Supply – Letterpress Supplies.
• Skyline type Foundry – Letterpress Type.
• Printing Equipment & Supply – Just that.
• Lithco – Supplies, Tools, & Equipment for the Printing Industry.

Paper

• French Paper Company – Paper and card stock.
• Porridge Papers – Handmade & Seed Papers
• Katz Americas – Coasters

Typography and Layout

• ATF Printing Instruction Cards (pdf)
• Identifont – Help to identify that puzzling font in the case on the floor.
• Fonts In Use – An independent archive of typography.
• WTF? – What The Font? More help to identify of course.
• Letterform Archive – a curated collection of items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design.
• Typographica Library – Specimen Books of Metal and Wood Type

Books Online

• The American Printer: Containing Practical Directions for Managing all Departments of a Printing Office, as well as Complete Instructions for Apprentices: with several Useful Tables, Numerous Schemes for Imposing Forms in Every Variety, Hints to Authors, etc. By Thomas MacKellar, Ph.D. Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 1885.
• MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan – 1891-92 Book of Specimens
• Typographia or the Printers Instructor – a brief sketch of the origin, rise, and progress of the typographic art, with practical directions for conducting every department in an office, hints to authors, publishers, &c by Thomas F Adams
• The Printers’ Vocabulary – by Charles Thomas Jacobi, November 1888.
• 1897 ATF Specimen Book and Catalog – Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc
• 1900 ATF Desk Book of Type Specimens
•  1923 ATF Specimen Book and Catalogue
• 1934 ATF Specimen Book – Book in CP collection
• A Catalog of Type – 1929 type specimen book of the Baltimore Type Company.
• Handy Type Index – One-line specimen book for American Type Founders, 1976.
• Type Faces – Descriptive Index and Price List of ATF Founders Products, 1955.
• Golding 1881 Presses, Tools, and Printing Material Catalogue