How I Got Involved in Letterpress Printing: I've always been interested in letter forms and typography. In university I started with a newsletter I published for the Math &
Physics Students group which I printed on a Gestetner duplicating machine (I actually once scooped The Varsity, the main paper at
U of T because I published on Tuesdays and they published M/W/F). From there I moved on to my college newspaper, which was web
printed from photo-comp layouts using a waxer and large sheets of special graph paper. When computers came around, I was an
early adopter of the Macintosh and the LaserWriter printer with its scalable fonts. Before Adobe Illustrator existed, I produced layouts
and illustrations by coding the PostScript by hand. Later I experimented with Fontographer and other wonderful digital typography
tools. Finally, I realized that the only printing technology with which I was unfamiliar was letterpress. So, I found my first press
in Kentucky and drove it home to New York. The rest is the letterpress history of Green Dolphin Press.
Presses & Equipment: Chandler
& Price 8 x 12; Pearl 7 x 11; Shniedewend Iron Hand Press; Ludlow Typograph (line typecaster); Shniedewend Reliance 23" guillotine;
Rosback Pin Perforator; lots of type and Ludlow matrices
Group Memberships, if any: APA #788; Westchester Chappel; Bibliographic
Society of America
