Interrobang Letterpress

Interrobang Letterpress http://interrobangletterpress.com Book, and Graphic Design, Stationery & Fine Typographic Letterpress.

finally got around to making up some bookplates for myself. 18pt Monotype ornament from Skyline Type Foundry, two sizes ...
08/23/2026

finally got around to making up some bookplates for myself. 18pt Monotype ornament from Skyline Type Foundry, two sizes of ATF Garamond, and a bunch of 24pt Bulmer periods.

See the process here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/interrobang918/K0Vy7iWPg5

delivered 50 copies of a 100 copy edition in advance of a reading by the poet at Dromfest in Catskill, NY over Labor Day...
08/23/2026

delivered 50 copies of a 100 copy edition in advance of a reading by the poet at Dromfest in Catskill, NY over Labor Day weekend.

Digitally printed guts set in Syntax Next, with a 2c dust jacket in Foundry Syntax.

See the process here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/interrobang918/8q95ib441C

we’ll be doing the Jamaica Plain Arts Council-JP Open Studios again. Come on by.
08/19/2026

we’ll be doing the Jamaica Plain Arts Council-JP Open Studios again. Come on by.

A commission by the completed just before Thanksgiving, and available at the same. 150 copies of a poem by the late Ife...
12/13/2025

A commission by the completed just before Thanksgiving, and available at the same. 150 copies of a poem by the late Ifeanyi Menkiti, “Before a Common Soil.” 150 copies printed in three colors on Hahnemühle “Antique.” Set on the Linotype in 12pt Optima Regular, with the title hand-set in 30pt Gensch & Heyes “Fox” and Dwiggins’ Linotype Caravan border 1278.

feeding a too big sheet. ended up turning the press over by hand because of mis-feeds. sometimes I miss having a treadle...
11/25/2025

feeding a too big sheet. ended up turning the press over by hand because of mis-feeds. sometimes I miss having a treadle to kick the press over slow.

After tearing 150+ sheets a few days ago, the broadside was completed, and delivered last night.
11/23/2025

After tearing 150+ sheets a few days ago, the broadside was completed, and delivered last night.

This afternoon I’m prepping paper for a poetry broadside for the Grolier Poetry Book Shop on Hahnemühle Ingres. It’s a m...
11/16/2025

This afternoon I’m prepping paper for a poetry broadside for the Grolier Poetry Book Shop on Hahnemühle Ingres. It’s a mould made sheet, but has four deckles, two true, and two torn at the mill. Rather than cut the sheets down on the guillotine which would be fast, but inaccurate because none of the sheets are square, I’m tearing to size. Plus, a hard cut edge would look, well, hard.

So I’ve set the work table up to tear sheets to final size. To help keep the T-square in place, I have a couple partial Linotype pigs that are wrapped in kraft paper. They often come in handy in any number of situations when things need to be weighted, and this is one. The edition is 150, with four out from a sheet. That’s three tears per sheet, so with overs for makeready spoilage, about 475 tears by hand. The weights will save me from having to check the position of, and my left wrist from having to pin down the T-square over and over.

So the target width has been marked off with blue tape (6.15”). By lining the left edge of the sheet to the cutting mat grid at 0” and with the T-square pinned down with it’s right edge at 6.15”, all I need to do is lift the T head, slip the sheet underneath, square it up on the left, and…. rip.

Not fast, but what part of letterpress is? Any small efficiency like weighing the square helps.

Annnnd that’s why auctions are a crap shoot. Package didn’t appear damaged in any way, nor the inner paper wrap. Still, ...
11/08/2025

Annnnd that’s why auctions are a crap shoot. Package didn’t appear damaged in any way, nor the inner paper wrap. Still, a bit of oxide bloom in the center of the font, so it must have gone through some freeze/thaw, or at least been stored in an unconditioned space. Ah well, it’s not ruined, but it’s not as new either.

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