Category Archives: Ephemera

Describe your craziest press moving experience in 50 words or less. Win a press (and a t-shirt)

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Flurry (a new online journal about letterpress printers) needs you. In particular, Flurry needs your press moving stories. And not just that time when you hired riggers and everything went really smoothly. Post a comment telling us (in 50 words or less) what crazy things your love for letterpress has caused you to do with really heavy machinery (or, if you’re shy, email us (liftgate@boxcarpress.com). How far were you willing to go for your cast iron beauty? Madness, adrenaline, photos, reenactments, and adventure are all encouraged. The best story will win the right of first refusal for Harold Kyle’s *free* 2-ton Miehle Vertical press. This press has brand new rollers, as well as typical rust and dirt issues as you’d expect with any mid-century press. It’s guaranteed to provide you with an exciting press moving story all over again! You’ll also receive fame and a Boxcar letterpress t-shirt featuring your choice of press (Vandercook; Windmill; C&P; or Sigwalt). And we’ll feature the best stories in an upcoming article on Flurry. Post or email your best in 50 words or less by August 20.

Boxcar Press is on TV! Hooray!

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Our office manager extraordinaire Carrie Reagan was featured in the lead story on Channel 5 news yesterday on the greatness of local food . It’s a gripping story filled with carrots, cabbage basil, Boxcar Press t-shirts, our friends at the local organic Grindstone Farm….and Carrie speaks eloquently to the beauty of buying local & organic, and knowing what ground your food comes from.

Sunlit Letterpress is in July/August How Magazine!

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Erin from Sunlit Letterpress in Vancouver (and also creator of the addictive Adventures in Letterpress blog) dropped us a note to say she’s in a fabulous article in the July/August How Magazine.

Congratulations, Erin — you make letterpress proud. Check out photos of the article on Erin’s blog, or see How’s web site. Erin prints with a Boxcar Base & uses Boxcar for her plate processing too.

P22: Fond Found Typography

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It’s 2002 and I’m in the final stretches of finishing my MFA thesis project. Typography is involved, and I have my heart dead set on using Satanick also called Tell Text or Troy, which was designed and cut by William Morris for his Kelmscott Press. There is just enough of the lead Satanick at Columbia College to set a headline for the broadside, a piece about pepper with Salman Rushdie’s text. I make desperate pleas to buy or borrow the type on various letterpress listservs and receive paternal-not-patronizing replies. If folks had this font, they probably wouldn’t lend it out. And the Smithsonian had the mats an abbreviation for “matrix”, a mould for casting type used in letterpress printing. Below is a photo (by Robert McCamant, taken at Jim Rimmer’s studio) of individual matrices or mats loaded into a matrix-case.

 at one time but rumor has it they lent them out and somehow they were lost for good. A big dead end, but fate delivered P22.

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Merry Christmas!

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We’re just doing the occasional post as this blogger (with the Boxcar Baby in tow) is traveling to warm weather places to visit with family. We realized we hadn’t posted pics of the Boxcar Baby lately….he has been spotted riding a big wheel around the offices, and also eating oranges while standing on top of the Boxcar Dada’s desk. Childhood sure looks fun….