Making a letterpress print for the baseball exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum
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Making a letterpress print for the baseball exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum
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Printing the Sacramento History Museum in multicolor rainbow ink
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Printing the Sacramento History Museum in multicolor rainbow ink
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We often demonstrate a lot of letterpress printing in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, but not many people get to see the cleaning process. In this video, Jared shows the full cleaning process sped up a bit because the full video is almost 10 minutes long. We use 1K kerosene as a solvent to clean the ink off of our 10x15 Chandler & Price Gordon-style jobbing press. This was after a press run where Howard and Jared letterpress printed 250 posters that are available in our
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We often demonstrate a lot of letterpress printing in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, but not many people get to see the cleaning process. In this video, Jared shows the full cleaning process sped up a bit because the full video is almost 10 minutes long. We use 1K kerosene as a solvent to clean the ink off of our 10x15 Chandler & Price Gordon-style jobbing press. This was after a press run where Howard and Jared letterpress printed 250 posters that are available in our
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Printing an engraving of the original building that houses our museum using a tabletop press
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Printing an engraving of the original building that houses our museum using a tabletop press
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Using a tabletop printing press to print an image of a printing press. This letterpress cut was printed in reflex blue rubber base ink. The image depicts a wooden common press from the late 1600s through the 1700s. This photo engraving certainly isn’t that old though. The press used in the video is a 3×5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. About 50 were printed in this press run. Why was Jared printing these? These are prints we give out to our viewers when they stop by the Sacramento Hist
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Using a tabletop printing press to print an image of a printing press. This letterpress cut was printed in reflex blue rubber base ink. The image depicts a wooden common press from the late 1600s through the 1700s. This photo engraving certainly isn’t that old though. The press used in the video is a 3×5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. About 50 were printed in this press run. Why was Jared printing these? These are prints we give out to our viewers when they stop by the Sacramento Hist
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In our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, we like to discuss the history of letterpress printing. However, sometimes we like to just highlight the sounds of the printing process. In this video, Jared letterpress prints an image depicting the first printing press in what would later become the United States, which was Stephen Daye’s wooden common press from 1639. This was printed in orange oil base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. These are prints we han
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In our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, we like to discuss the history of letterpress printing. However, sometimes we like to just highlight the sounds of the printing process. In this video, Jared letterpress prints an image depicting the first printing press in what would later become the United States, which was Stephen Daye’s wooden common press from 1639. This was printed in orange oil base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. These are prints we han
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Throughout the month of June, we have been sharing videos from our print shop exhibit demonstrating letterpress printing with multiple colors of ink. For this one, we wanted to see how an animal appeared in rainbow. In this video, Howard letterpress printed an image of a ferret from a large photo engraving. This cut was acquired a year ago by a staff person, Pete, of the museum. The artist who designed the image is George Thomas Hamer. This was printed with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and
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Throughout the month of June, we have been sharing videos from our print shop exhibit demonstrating letterpress printing with multiple colors of ink. For this one, we wanted to see how an animal appeared in rainbow. In this video, Howard letterpress printed an image of a ferret from a large photo engraving. This cut was acquired a year ago by a staff person, Pete, of the museum. The artist who designed the image is George Thomas Hamer. This was printed with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and
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Using a printing press to print an image of a printing press. This letterpress cut was printed in Pantone Red Pepper oil base ink. The image depicts a wooden common press, very similar to what Johannes Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. The press used in the video is a 3×5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop press. #red #sacramento #printingpress #asmr #letterpress #museum | Sacramento History Museum
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Throughout the month of June, we have been sharing videos from our print shop exhibit demonstrating letterpress printing with multiple colors of ink. For this one, we wanted to see how our Museum appeared in rainbow. In this video, Howard letterpress printed an image from a modern photo engraving based on a lithograph of Sacramento’s City Hall and Waterworks building from 1857. Our museum is housed in a reconstruction of that building, which was originally built at the corner of I and Front Stre
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In our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, we like to discuss history while letterpress printing. However, sometimes we like to just highlight the sounds of the printing process. In this video, Jared letterpress printed an image depicting the first printing press in what would later become the United States, which was Stephen Daye’s wooden common press from 1639. This was printed in rhodamine red rubber base ink using a 4x6 Golding Official #2 tabletop printing press. 70 prints
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Letterpress printing souvenir prints with a tabletop press for an evening event at our Museum
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Printing a 130 year old woodcut as an introduction to the print shop at the Sac History Museum
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In our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, we like to discuss history while letterpress printing. However, sometimes we like to just highlight the sounds of the printing process. In this video, Jared letterpress printed an image depicting the first printing press in what would later become the United States, which was Stephen Daye’s wooden common press from 1639. This was printed in green rubber base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. 70 prints were made d
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We are often asked how we maintain our historic printing presses in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum. In this video, Howard demonstrates what is needed to keep our Washington hand press working properly the same way it operated 170 years ago. Our Washington hand press was manufactured in 1852 by the Charles Foster & Brother Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. #maintenance #sachistorymuseum #printingpress #museum #sacramento #letterpress | Sacramento History Museum
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Sometimes we let the print do the talking for us. In this video, Howard letterpress printed using the largest wood type (30 line pica) that we have in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum. This is, indeed, the biggest “HI!” we can print. The typeface is French Clarendon and the type was made by the Hamilton Wood Type Company in the late 1880s. This was printed with red oil base ink using our Washington hand press. #hi #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #history #letterpress
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Howard prints the Sacramento History Museum in multicolor rainbow ink
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Printing an announcement from the print shop at the Sacramento History Museum
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Printing a quote by Dolly Parton and a butterfly in dark pink ink with a tabletop printing press
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We have an important message to share from the Sacramento History Museum. This was typeset in 30 point Caslon and letterpress printed in purple rubber base ink. This was printed using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. #typography #caslon #oddlysatisfying #purple #sachistorymuseum #museum #printing #letterpress #sacramento | Sacramento History Museum
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October 9th is International Print Day! We needed to post another video of us showing printing a printing press with another printing press. In this video, Alex letterpress printed an image depicting the first printing press in what would later become the United States, which was Stephen Daye’s wooden common press from 1639. This was printed with pink oil base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. 130 prints were made during this press run. These are prints we hand out to vis
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Letterpress Printing a Dolly Parton Quote
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We show a lot of letterpress printing in our videos but not a lot of the clean up. We normally use 1K kerosene as a solvent but this video is different, because we are cleaning with Grip Clean​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠⁠. In this video, Jared shows cleaning a 4x6 Golding Official No. 2 tabletop printing press using one Grip Clean hand wipe and a dry shop towel. This was after a press run using red oil base ink. Grip Clean also helps keep our hands clean in our print shop exhibit. It normally t
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Showing some love for the Sacramento History Museum through printing! In this video, Jared letterpress printed some “I ❤️ Sacramento History Museum” cards with rhodamine red rubber base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press.The “I” is 36 point Stymie Bold font, the heart is a card indicator for the suit of hearts from a case of typographic accessories, and the cut is of our museum located in Old Sacramento. These were printed (roughly 150 in this press run) to have on hand to
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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
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Exploring Letterpress Printing Techniques at Sacramento History Museum
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Printing Sacramento’s original waterworks building in 1857 using a tabletop printing press
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Howard makes a large rainbow letterpress print at the Sacramento History Museum for Pride Month
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Exploring Old Sacramento's Printing History
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Print making some I ❤️ Sacramento History Museum cards with a tabletop press
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Letterpress printing the inside text for Sacramento History Museum’s 2025 holiday card
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