When it comes to letterpress printing, everything that one prints has to be .918 of an inch, also known as Type High. Because finding wood that fits that height requirement, sometimes woodcuts were recycled and a new engraving was made on the other side. We have some double sided woodcuts in our shop and we are highlighting one today because November 15th is National Recycling Day. For today, Howard letterpress printed both sides of a recycled woodcut that was gifted to us about a year ago from

When it comes to letterpress printing, everything that one prints has to be 0.918 of an inch, also known as Type High. Because finding wood that fits that height requirement, sometimes woodcuts were recycled and a new engraving was made on the other side. We have some double sided woodcuts in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum and we are highlighting one today because November 15th is National Recycling Day. For today, Howard letterpress printed both sides of a recycled woodcut from

We show a lot of letterpress printing in our videos but not a lot of the clean up. We normally use 1K kerosene as a solvent but this video is different, because we get a lot of inquiries from viewers about cleaning with Grip Clean. In this video, Jared shows cleaning the 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press using one Grip Clean hand wipe. This was after a press run using black rubber base ink. Grip Clean also helps keep our hands clean in our print shop exhibit. It normally takes 2-3 min