Wallflowers Press is a supporter of LetPress, an online discussion group listserv, that exchanges ideas, techniques and other information about letterpress. Enough of us agreed to do one page of a 5″ x 7″ calendar to produce four complete calendars plus covers. There are three North American calendars and one British/European calendar. Jill contributed one of the North American covers and Ray contributed one of the North American Januarys.

Title: LetPress 2007 North American calendar / Cover
Client: LetPress listserv
Edition: 60
Inks: 3
. . . 1 ink handrolled on the background
. . . 2 inks using press rollers
Production: photopolymer
Software: InDesign
Size: 5″ (w) x 7″ (h)
Press: Vandercook Universal 3
Paper: cover stock
Fonts:
. . . large: Gothic Extended / wood type and reduced
. . . small: Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed
Designer: Jill Cypher
Printers: Jill Cypher & Ray Nichols

Title: LetPress 2007 North American calendar / January
Client: LetPress listserv
Edition: 60
Ink: none
. . . 2 runs of debossing (two depths)
Software: InDesign
Size: 5″x 7″
Press: Vandercook Universal 3
Paper: Stonehenge
Fonts: Joanna
Designer: Ray Nichols
Printers: Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher

Story: I wanted to do something that would look different than I was expecting for the other months. We are getting ready to move our equipment into a new studio space and right now it is all under a tarp under our carport. With the temperature hovering around 45 most of the days I wanted to print I was nervous about putting ink on the press. So it often snows in January and a nice white calendar page seemed to make sense.

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