Affordable copper, magnesium and photopolymer platemakers and milled aluminum bases have allowed letterpress printers to produce type and images derived from digital artwork, fonts and scans.

Today, the jobber is the preferred press for letterpress printers who now produce high-end prints (often wedding invitations) for customers who want an antique effect.

At the age of 15, Duddy was apprenticed to a letterpress printer.

Loyd Haberly (1896-1981) was an American poet, letterpress printer, and educator.

George Walker trained as a letterpress printer in high school and continued to study the trade in college.

On June 6, 1948 Lars Gilson bought letterpress printer Dependable Printing and renamed it Gilson Press.

Before writing, he worked as a bicycle mechanic, carpenter, crab fisherman, and letterpress printer.

The event is a multi-day conference with presentations and workshops by letterpress printers and historians.

Andrew Hoyem (born 1935) is a typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet, and preservationist.

When I came to live in the United States in the mid-nineties, I met a letterpress printer, a woman who lived in western Massachusetts.