→ Letterpress videos from Boxcar Press
When we were children, we often wondered what we’d become in our adult lives. There were two obvious choices: turn into a movie star or a letterpress printer. Movie star? Printer? Movie star. Printer. But why couldn’t we become both?
Enter the Boxcar Institute Training Series, starring the dashing Pearl Press, the debonair Vandercook Universal III, the sidekicking polymer plates, the sultry Boxcar Base, and Harold. This will be an ongoing series focusing on printing well with photopolymer plates. Musical accompaniment is by Mouse on Mars.
Boxcar recently posted some instructional videos to their site as part of their Boxcar Institute Training Series (which I reckon you can buy). The videos don’t cover anything entirely revolutionary (“Base lockup and cleaning,” “Adjusting roller height,” & “Setting gauge pins”), but it’s nice to see the presses they have in the shop there, to get a sense for the folks/personalities over at Boxcar and to see companies like Boxcar trying fun/strange endeavors.
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From Francois Girard’s 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould with Colm Feore as Glen Gould.
