Letterpress still exists all over the world, folks, not just in a museum! While traveling in Central Europe, Jared visited letterpress_salzburg in Salzburg, Austria.
In this video, Jared tours the workshop, sets some type, and does some letterpress printing and embossing with Bernhard using a circa 1860 Liberty jobbing press. The phrase “Sacramento visits Salzburg” was typeset with 48 point Sans Serif font.
Annette Rollny and Bernhard Müller have a design agency in Salzburg for graphic design and photo design. They have also been building up a letterpress printing business since 2017 collecting and restoring old wooden typefaces and lead type and want to preserve this historic craft for posterity. In workshops and demonstrations, they show young people, students, and anyone else who is interested the craft of letterpress printing. They own and work with a Liberty press from around 1860 from New York and a Phoenix press from Leipzig, Germany, from around 1870. They also work with two...
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