Letterpress digital services and materials

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Photopolymer platemaking: The Bieler Press provided photopolymer platemaking to the contemporary studio letterpress community from mid-1995 through 2019. Offered were professionally processed premium-grade plates for today’s popular bases. For further details go to Photopolymer Platemaking Service.

Bunting magnetic bases: The Bieler Press was a manufacturing representative and distributor of the industry-standard Bunting Magnetic Cerface™ Flat Base for Bunting Magnetics Co. The crème de la crème. I have two previously used MB811 Bunting flatbases (for .038" plates) available for $1,085 each.











 

Monograph on photopolymer platemaking and letterpress printing with digital type: The Bieler Press was the publisher of Printing digital type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press, the seminal manual on letterpress printing with the photopolymer plate process. First published in 1998, it went through several print editions. Copies of early editions are still available (click on the title above). Signed by the author upon request.

Still considered the definitive manual on the process. . .

The 5th edition of Gerald Lange’s monograph, Printing digital type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press, was produced in May 2018, by Chatwin Books, Seattle. This edition is 114 pages long and includes several related articles [marked with an asterisk below] previously written by Lange. The paperback edition is available from the publisher as well as from The Bieler Press for $24.95 (plus shipping). Signed by the author if requested.
Contents
Part I: Overview
Introduction
1 A Brief History of Photopolymer Plates
Part II: Photopolymer Plates
2 Technical Aspects of Photopolymer Printing Plates
3 Photopolymer Platemaking Equipment
4 Pre-Digital Typesetting Cautions and Considerations
5 Film Negatives and Imaging
6 The Platemaking Process—Preparation, Exposure
7 The Platemaking Process- Washout, Drying, and Curing
8 Storage and Care of Photopolymer Plates
Part III: Printing
9 The Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Proof Press
10 Notes on Press Operations and Maintenance
11 Edition Printing on the Cylinder Proof Press* Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, 1999
12 Cylinder Packing and Makeready
13 Flatbases
14 Base Lockup and Press Preparation
15 Plate Registration
16 Rollers and Inking
17 Notes on Ink and Paper
18 Impression
Part IV: Working With Digital Type
Examples of font modification
19 Digital Type
20 Configuring Digital Type for Letterpress
21 Pre-Press Cautions and Considerations
22 Digital Type Foundries Respond to Letterpress* Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, 2002
23 Font Modification Sequence for Fontographer
24 Font Modification Sequence for FontLab Studio
Afterword
About the Author
References & Suggested Reading
Glossary