Sleepy Letterpress, Detroit - video

[Dave Hughes]

Here's a nice introductory video from Sleepy Letterpress giving the history of this print shop, which I'm presuming is still located in Detroit, USA.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mNrsDZfE-E

[Dave Hughes]

I'm really enjoying these "Sleepy Letterpress" videos, even the music's great!

On this one Andy produces a letterpress sign for the bathroom.

A great introduction to the craft for a beginner.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA_EQ-l4Wc

In this video, Andy produces a sign for the bathroom!? That sounds weird...watch to see the sign take shape. The design involves more than half-a-century old Wood Fonts and then is printed on Eleanor, the print shop's 120 year-old 10x12 Chandler & Price.

[Mechanic]

My brother was a printer compositor. I would often watch him running a platen press. Once he put the impression on. He didn't stop. I find it hard to believe that there was not enough ink being put on the type with a single pass. I suspect that this printer didn't want to get his hand printed on. There was an old saying, "You are not a printer until you have had your hand caught in a platen press."