Letterpresses
Letterpress studios and printers working in Portland’s deep tradition of handset type and pressed ink.
- Clinker Press – “Hand-made printing using vintage letterpress technology, exquisite paper and hand binding.”
- Crack Press – “…an avenue for creating my artwork as well as working directly with artists, musicians, designers and illustrators to realize their vision.”
- Egg Press – “…a letterpress greeting card company, founded and owned by designer Tess Darrow.”
- Fiddleink – “…authentic honest-to-goodness earthly printing and graphic work produced by hand and mechanical typecasting methods”
- Gann Brothers Printing – I’m a third generation printer… Since 1915, our company has operated out of Portland, Oregon.
- Impressions in Ink – “…takes pride in delivering high-quality marketing and packaging products”
- IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) – “Bring your creative projects to life in the studios, take a workshop, or hang out in the zine library.”
- Lark Press – “…a small letterpress studio in Portland, Oregon. For the past 20 years we’ve been hand feeding cards into our ancient (well, 100+ year-old) letterpresses.”
- Letterpress PDX – “The studio is filled with historic printing equipment and hundreds of letterpress samples that you can pick up & touch for inspiration.”
- Loaded Hips Press – “…cards and prints of Loaded Hips Press are completely handmade from carved linocuts and individually printed on a letterpress from 1910 in the haunted downstairs of an old waterfront warehouse…”
- Neu Haus Press – “…founded in 1996 by Chris Chandler when he acquired his first Vandercook Press in Venice Beach, CA… From 30 years working as a tour manager and sound engineer for bands he has had the privilege of sharing his passion of letterpress with musicians in collaborations with their art work.”
- Oblation Papers and Press – “…began at the Eugene Saturday Market in 1989… By 1994 they were printing by letterpress. By 1998 they had opened their doors in Portland’s Pearl District and have been there ever since.”
- Paperjam – “A print shop with an artist’s touch offering design services to assist with your project”
- Parklife Press – “Travis Friedrich founded Parklife Press in 2005. With degrees in mechanical engineering and art, Travis set out to explore his love of design and printmaking.”
- PlatemarkX – “I have studied printmaking my entire life, falling in love with linoleum and wood block printing. I then discovered letterpress and book arts.”
- Portland Type – “…a design studio that focuses on creative / art direction, brand and typeface design, which evolved from Portland’s first digital type foundry I created in the early 90s.”
- Reb Peters Press – “…a very helpful friend asked, “If you could do anything without worrying about the cost to make it happen, what would you do?” And the answer was to have a letterpress studio.”
- RX Letterpress – “I discovered a world of stationery beyond the awful Hallmark and Carlton Cards I’d known, and an old-fashioned way of making it by hand that delighted me. In 2009, my aunt sold me her motorized 1907 Chandler & Price 7×11 letterpress.”
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- Emily Johnson – Formerly in Portland, now in Cody, Nebraska.