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PRESS HERE A traditional Beech Hill Road |
Traditional letterpress printing is what nearly everyone thinks of as ‘real’ printing—using lead type, just as Gutenberg and Caxton did 500 years ago.
After dominating the industry for almost all that time, it was suddenly killed off commercially by a combination of computers and lithographic printing in the 1980s and 1990s. Today it is unlikely to be found in use except in a very few ‘fine print’ presses producing work for book collectors, or by a handful of enthusiasts. Only a few museums with printing equipment operate it regularly.
Whether you are just curious to see this process that changed the world with as big an impact in its day as the internet has had today, or used to work in one of its crafts and want to reminisce or show the younger generation what you used to do, you should find this small workshop interesting.
It houses power, treadle & hand presses, and has some typecasting equipment which is used occasionally, though all the type-setting is done by hand.
Press Here
Is the workshop of John B Easson’s Quarto Press,
which has been printing non-commercially
for over 40 years.
Admission free
Parking & disabled access: No tourist shop!
Beech Hill Road is 200 metres off the A93 Coupar Angus to Blairgowrie road, at the ‘Cemetery’ sign.
Opening times are erratic
As they depend on when I’m printing:
Ring 01828 628001
To arrange a definite viewing time
