Old Book / New Process

So I found this very interesting book on scanned by google books. Of course I could read it on the Internet Archive here, but it seemed like something that would be useful to hold in your hand in the print shop. Enter “Espresso on demand book printing at Harvard Books! Cleverly named Paige M. Gutenborg (notice the printing/Star Trek mashup), you can have such books printed to order and sent to you for a very reasonable price. Check it out here: http://www.harvard.com/clubs_services/books_on_demand/

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Our Press Makes the News… in 1967

Harry Stauffer printing on the Bronstrup for a story in the New York Times Travel Section.

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Christmas Open House @ HSCV on December 2nd from 2 – 5 PM!

Stop by the Historical Society tomorrow at our Christmas Open House and print yourself a Holiday Coaster! You’ll need one to keep those holiday drinks from putting rings on your coffee table, so why not have one you printed yourself on a 168 year old press. I’ll see you in the print shop between 2:00 and 5:00! Corner of Oak and Main in Ephrata. Free museum tours and refreshments too!

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Lancaster Printers Fair September 14 & 15

Come see us on Saturday, September 15 at the Lancaster Printers Fair. The 300 block of Queen Street in Lancaster will be full of stands demonstrating and selling printed goods and equipment. Street fair is from 11 – 4. There are additional activities the night before. See the whole schedule here.

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Another Field Trip to Bethlehem

The model paper makeing operation fills up the length of the exhibit (on right here). There’s a lot packed into this exhibit including some Ephrata history.

Most of us from the field trip made a multipurpose visit to the National Museum of Industrial History on Saturday. Of course we wanted to see their Print and Papermaking exhibit now that it’s complete. Paul had some matrices for their newly acquired Linotype. And we also had some questions about some presses we’re privately restoring/repairing to ask the purveyor of the Excelsior Press, who is the exhibit’s resident letterpress expert.

The exhibit is really great and worth the trip while it’s still there! What really amazed us was the working model of a paper making operation. It really makes paper. Frank, the resident mechanical wizard, gave us a full tour of it.

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Scroll Saw Demonstrations at the Museum

Saturday, June 23, 2018 10 AM – 2 PM Tri-County Scrollers club members will again set up their saws at the museum of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley at the corner of Main and Oak Streets in Ephrata, PA. We’ll also have the Print Shop open the extended time and will be demonstrating the craft.

Come talk to us if you’re interested in beginning either craft or need tips to improve what you already do. The Tri-County Scrollers will have crafts available to buy. There are examples of some great scroll saw work from over a hundred years ago and printing from over 200 years ago in the museum to see as well. The event and the museum is free. Come check us out!

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French Oldstyle No. 552 – 24pt

So Madelyn, Jeff and I were at the print shop today. Jeff finished printing some QSL cards. It’s a HAM radio thing that we’ll soon be able to produce for others. Madelyn finished sorting some Thompson Quillscript and printed some Ephrata Cloister brochures. I proofed the type shown which we have a 2/3 case of. It’s not a totally complete case (there is a lowercase “r”, I just somehow got an “i” instead, but there’s probably more around the shop somwhere. Any idea what the typestyle is?

UPDATE: Identified!! Thanks to American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century by McGrew.

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Chesapeake Printers Fair Trip

Most of the Print Shop crew enjoyed a day out at the Chesapeake Printers Fair in Havre de Grace, Maryland. It was a beautiful day hosted by Glyph, a wonderful print studio and stationary store. We saw many of our friends there and it was fun catching up with them and seeing their current work. At the risk of forgetting someone we saw:

… and yes, I was so absorbed in the event that I forgot to take any pictures.

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Visit to National Museum of Industrial History

We traveled to Bethlehem for a special visit to the National Museum of Industrial History at the Steel Stacks complex. Check it out at nmih.org and plan a visit! A special printing exhibit will open there soon. We’ll post details here.

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Itinerant Printer Ted Talk

Check out this TED talk from our friend, Chris Fritton, about his project which included a visit to the Conestoga Press.

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