Letterpress Workshop

In the letterpress workshop, wood and linoleum cuts up to 50 x 70 cm can be created, as well as monoprints and heliogravure. In two hot metal typesetting units with font sizes from 6-48 points, texts, justifications, continuous text and rag texts can be set from poems or short texts. The workshop is equiped with various manual presses as well as a reproduction camera for heliogravure, offering unique capabilities to try classical letterpress techniques.

Workshop users should have prior experience with letterpress.

Equipment List:
2 hot metal typesetting unites
2 FAG manual presses
Knee press
Reproduction camera

For further information, please inquire with workshop manager Hans-Jürgen Wolfsturm.