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Fall 2007 Classes
Posted on August 5th, 2007 by admin.
Below are Fall 2007 letterpress classes offered through the San Francisco Center for the Book. Feel free to drop a line with any questions about these exciting new offerings!
Pre-Press: Thinking Ahead for Letterpress Printing with John Sullivan
Area: Printing
Status: Available
Workshop ID: t3-090107-prt3
Sat Sep 01 10am-4pm
$110, materials fee includedIn this class John covers the details for careful planning and design to ensure successful printing. Subjects include document layout and setup for creating files to output negatives for photopolymer plates. This includes suggestions for artwork formats, imposition, double-sided printing and color separations. John will demonstrate printing and setup procedures.
Prerequisite: Letterpress I-III or permission from instructor.
We’re pleased to feature Saturday classes this fall at Logos Graphics, just ten blocks from the Center in the Mission district’s Project Artaud. John Sullivan has operated Logos Graphics for thirty years, offering full digital pre-press, photopolymer plate making, letterpress, offset and intaglio printmaking.
Tools List for Workshop
All materials provided
Running Film and Making Plates: Focus on Photopolymer with John Sullivan
Area: Printing
Status: Available
Workshop ID: t3-091507-prt2
Sat Sep 15 10am-4pm
$110, materials fee included
From plate type to substrate, learn professional tips for photopolymer platemaking and printing. John will demonstrate how to lockup a Boxcar base, register your plates, and back-trim your paper. Prerequisite: Letterpress I-III or permission from instructor. This class does not qualify you to rent the Center’s platemaker.
Tools List for Workshop
All materials provided
Heidelberg Windmill Press I: An Overview with John Sullivan
Area: Printing
Status: Available
Workshop ID: t3-092207-prt
Sat Sep 22 10am-4pm
$110 plus $15 materials fee
A fast and fiercely efficient machine, the automated Heidelberg Windmill platen press is the choice of many letterpress professionals. John will go over workflow of the press, covering the many different parts, the swift speed and the press in action. Students will be able to try their hand at running the press.
Prerequisite: Letterpress I-III.
Tools List for Workshop
All materials provided
Heidelberg Windmill Press II: Impression and Delivery with John Sullivan
Area: Printing
Status: Available
Workshop ID: t3-092907-prt2
Sat Sep 29 10am-4pm
$110 plus $15 materials fee
Learn the specifics of the impression settings and delivery tray. Using its suction windmill arms, the Heidelberg takes paper from the tray and delivers it to the tympan on which it is printed and then moved to the finished pile. Students will print, adjust impression, check for evenness and position the delivery tray.
Prerequisite: Letterpress I-III and Heidelberg Windmill Press I.
Tools List for Workshop
All materials provided
Heidelberg WIndmill Press III: Inking and Maintenance with John Sullivan
Area: Printing
Status: Available
Workshop ID: t3-100607-prt2
Sat Oct 06 10am-4pm
$110 plus $15 materials fee
Learn the features and benefits of various ink types as they relate to letterpress printing and the Heidelberg. Topics will include printing order of multiple color jobs, scale measuring and mixing and inking the fountain. John will also cover trimming with guide and gripper marks, press oiling and wash up.
Prerequisite: Letterpress I-III and Heidelberg Windmill Press I-II.
Tools List for Workshop
All materials provided
See Also:
Sat Sep 01: Pre-Press: Thinking Ahead for Letterpress Printing (Available)
Sat Sep 15: Running Film and Making Plates: Focus on Photopolymer (Available)
Sat Sep 22: Heidelberg Windmill Press I: An Overview (Available)
Sat Sep 29: Heidelberg Windmill Press II: Impression and Delivery (Available)
Sat Oct 06: Heidelberg Windmill Press III: Inking and Maintenance (Available)
Photos from SFCB Screenprinting Class
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by admin.
Here are some photos from our fun Screenprinting Class at the San Francisco Center for the Book:
Cutting what’s it worth?
Posted on April 5th, 2007 by admin.
I have cut stock down for several letterpress printers now, there is a little sticker shock on both sides when I do the invoice. Preparing stock for printing may be an overlooked cost center. How much time is required to trim stock down and how important the uniformity of paper size to your printing conditions may be overlooked.
- If you are “running to size” then a layout of how many press sheets out of each parent sheet is needed, consider grain direction, business cards feel stiffer if the grain runs the long dimension, also most papers require a “back trim” this means the face of the stack that is outside the knife (not under the clamp) needs to be turned and trimmed off. Paper outside the knife usually has a rough, dusty quality and will look different when stacked with the rest of the cuts.
- On sheet wise or work and turn/tumble jobs the back trim is especially important since the lay guide or guide edge will change depending on how the stock is flipped for second side printing.