May 7th this year is National Skilled Trades Day! This day honors those in who work in trade professions and their skills that help build and benefit society. For today, Howard used an antique printing press to letterpress print a halftone of an image of a more modern press, highlighting the skilled trade of printing. This halftone shows a photograph a printer operating a Little Giant printing press that was made in the 1940s. This was printed with reflex blue rubber base ink using our Washingto

May 8th this year is National Make A Book Day! This day takes place on the Thursday during National Family Reading Week, which is a week that started in 1995 with the intention of bringing families to read books together. For today, Jared letterpress printed a large halftone from the California State Printing Office’s book binding room in 1914. What is interesting about this print is that the workers in this book binding room were all women. This was printed with reflex blue rubber base ink usin