Letterpress still exists all over the world, folks, not just in a museum! While traveling in Central Europe, Jared visited Letterpress Manufaktur Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. In this video, Jared tours the workshop, sets some type, and does some letterpress printing and embossing with Bernhard using a circa 1860 Liberty jobbing press. The phrase “Sacramento visits Salzburg” was typeset with 48 point Sans Serif font. Annette Rollny and Bernhard Müller have a design agency in Salzburg for graphi

When it comes to letterpress printing, everything that one prints has to be 0.918 of an inch, also known as Type High. Because finding wood that fits that height requirement, sometimes woodcuts were recycled and a new engraving was made on the other side. We have some double sided woodcuts in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum and we are highlighting one today because November 15th is National Recycling Day. For today, Howard letterpress printed both sides of a recycled woodcut from

Howard shares an old printing joke while letterpress printing with a 10x15 Chandler & Price jobbing press for National Tell An Old Joke Day (July 24). Did you get this impressive joke? We hope you are font of these type of videos. #TellAnOldJokeDay #TellAJoke #museum #history #sacramento #joke #jokes #jokesvideo #letterpress #printingpress #printing #oldsacramento #sachistorymuseum | Sacramento History Museum

The NBA season has started and we here at the Sacramento History Museum are, of course, #SacramentoProud. In honor of the start of the season, Howard letterpress printed something for the Sacramento Kings. This electrotype clearly shows its age because basketballs stopped having laces in the late 1930s. The font is 24 point Caslon. #NBA #NBAA2022 #sacramento #basketball #letterpress #printing | Sacramento History Museum