The sleep machine is running, unaware it is being watched. Long out of production, this Heidelberg 10 x 15 windmill letterpress still runs smoothly & precisely with the loving care it has been given over the decades. If you listen closely, you can hear it breathing & purring as ink is pressed to downy white cotton paper.
Bella Figura‘s Lace design features stark black ink sculptured with pillowy cotton paper pushing forward against the debossed areas.
Jake and Dave ponder how to acquire more flannel to keep warm during our frigid central NY winter.
This is a souvenir diecut piece from a very special birthday party. Now we can remember the good times all year.
Much like a lion-tamer, Dave persuades the press to do fancy tricks: match Pantone, don’t feed too fast, get the right amount of air flowing.
We love when the people we get to work with come to our shop for a visit! Annie came all the way from Monterrey, Mexico to tour the Boxcar Press studio, and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to show her around the shop (and the city of Syracuse) a few weeks back.
Annie works with us for photopolymer plates, and we’re amazed by the printing she’s been doing lately. Click here to visit Filomena Press on Facebook to check out some of Annie’s work!
My fellow pressperson, Pat, has the greenest press in the shop. From a lush green carpet for comfortable footing all the way up to the very top with a leafy, happy bamboo plant for ambient eye candy. Pat’s press is the swankiest.
Joe knows how to make a happy press. He is printing the second color on a set of business cards. Text printed in taupe ink paired with a vivid blue logo makes a fun combination.
It’s Tim, the back of Lou & peeping Dave – all letterpress printers here at Boxcar Press!
Here is a bracket on the wall. Here is Bella Figura’s design Peacock Full. I think these birdies were separated at birth and have now been reunited.
