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  • These pictures show the main points of printing. The Guide is written so that if you follow it, one step at time, you can do good printing. However, if you just can’t wait, you can open a package of type, put it in a case, and set up your name (as shown here). Place it in the chase (frame), also as per picture, put a dab of ink (no bigger than a good sized match head) on the ink table, smooth it out with one of the press rollers, and then take an impression on a piece of paper, turning up the screws on the back of the platen if necessary to make the printing show. The results this way may need considerable improvement, but they will show you that printing is no mysterious business.
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  • Our shop is devoted to the book arts, particularly the craft of fine letterpress printing and traditional book typography. The typefaces and ornaments displayed throughout this website are cast in our shop foundry in a metal alloy of superior hardness, from 8- to 72-point, and represent the most extensive collection of classic English Monotype book faces in the United States, including over 7,000 accented matrices.
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  • The Common Press is the letterpress printing studio at the University of Pennsylvania. The press is a collaboration of interests at Penn, including writing (Kelly Writers House), print culture (the Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and visual arts and design (the School of Design). The facility provides a mixed media environment where students can move between digital and manual image making, collaborating with writers, printmakers and others in the book arts. The Common Press exists to assist in teaching design and to facilitate collaborative projects across the university. It was founded two years ago, on January 17, 2006, the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth.
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