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How You Got Involved In Letterpress Printing: I started making books around 1987, at which time I learned about the Vandercook sp15 and setting type. I had been around production printing probably since i was 13 or so....my mother ran the printing dept. in a large insurance company so I would "help out" in the bindery sometimes on weekends when she would go in on weekends during busy season. Fond memories of the large press room with all the heidleburgs singing away.

Presses & Equipment: I now have my own Vandercook sp-15 that sits besides an old fuchs and lang stone lithography press, which in turn stands next to a newer takach etching press and a 5x8 kelsey and a mini kelsey that I use for demonstrating how multiple copies were done using type...a sign press, an old thompson card press. all are used, even if it's for an extra surface when needed. I love my old presses, they have such history, and the work hard. I try to use them as much as possible with traditional as well as more experimental approaches -- it keeps ones mind in perspective...easy is not always better.

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