letterpress manuals

Have you pampered your press lately? We hope so, because if you want the next generation to experience the thrill, the joy, and the frustration of letterpress printing, you'll have to make sure they have working presses. If you own a press, it's your responsibility to maintain it for prosperity!

To make your job easier, we've posted manuals and technical information on letterpress equipment below. This is a free service of Boxcar Press and requires only Acrobat Reader to access. Keep in mind that some of the files are quite large and may take several minutes to download. We've tried to keep manuals in a 8-1/2 x 11 inch format so that you can print them easily.

If you have documentation that relates to letterpress equipment, we encourage you to add to our online library! E-mail us a description of your manual. Let us know if it's an original or a photocopy, and what sort of condition it's in. We can take care of the scanning and PDF generation.