College & University Letterpress Printers' Association


	Letpress - letterpress listserv PPLetterpress - photopoplymer letterpress listserv Book_Arts-L - book arts listserv Flurry - online letterpress journal Boxcar Press Source for plastic- and metal-backed polymer plates. Also recycles plates! Bookmakers 301.604.7787 bookmakers@earthlink.net Bookbinding supplies, based in Maryland. Talas 212.219.0770 Bookmaking supplies, based in New York. Hollander's 734.741.7531 Book and paper store in Michigan. Lee Valley Super-strong magnets for enclosures. Printed Matter A non-profit store in New York devoted to artists' books, 'zines, and other "artists' publications." They also take interns. Boxcar Press NY based photopolymer/letterpress supply. You can get photointaglio plates here as well plates for letterpress (and, if you can afford it, you can have them make your plates for you). Briar Press Letterpress forum with a free classified listing. AlphaGraphics 410.727.1400 1305 St. Paul, just south of the intersection with Mount Royal. They can shoot films from Illustrator files that have no pixels at all and are perfect for exposing all sorts of things, esp. polymer plates. To make sure everything's how you want it, print out and give them a hard-copy exactly like you want the film to be. For an 8 1/2 x 11 film, $10 with student ID and cash. (That's a 15% discount.) They can usually do it same-day (for the same price) if you get it to them in the morning. NA Graphics 970.387.0212, fax 90.387.0127 email nagraph@frontier.net for a free catalog. All things letterpress: rollers, furniture, high-speed quoins, tympan paper, numbering machines, steel rule, leads and slugs, gauge pins, Vandercook parts and supplies, Kelsey supplies, Morgan Expansion Trucks, parts for Miehle Verticals, C&P, Heidelberg, ATF foundry type, composing sticks, photopolymer plates aand platemakers. In Silverton, Colorado. Rollers Tarheel Roller & Brayer Dave Hauser, hau6118@aol.com Composition rollers. American Printing Equipment Rubber rollers. Dave Churchman 317.849.5665 Dealer of all kinds of letterpress equipment, including presses. In Indiannapolis. Don Black 416.751.5944 don@donblack.ca Kind of a letterpress pawn shop. He has type, presses, press parts, casting equipment, hot-foil stamping equipment, Linotype mats & Monotype matrices, and pretty much everything else. He'll pay cash for whatever you want to sell, too. The website also has an extensive directory of typeface proofs, to get a quick idea of what a face looks like. In Toronto. The following are sources for inks: Fritz at NA Graphics and Bill at Quaker City Type have small tubes of different colors. XPEDX and Graphic Chemical sell Van Son inks in cans. Gans has a lot of inks, including Pantone. The following are sources for magnesium plates: Valley Etching 413.536.2256 You can email them the artwork. Fast turnaround. In Holyoke, MA Pella Engraving Company PO Box 127 Pella, IA 50219 Augustine Company Marshalltown, Iowa Central Michigan Engravers PO Box 15006 Lansing, MI 48901 (517) 485-5865 Cal-Art & Engraving Speedy service, mounted & unmounted dies In San Carlos, CA Peterson Engraving Brown and Hartman Engraving Co. 918.582.1165 M inimum 10 square inches @ $14.70 mounted type-high, & increases from there. "Very cooperative." In Tulsa, OK Standard Engraving Company 625 West Main St. Oklahoma City, OK 73126 405 235 5313 - Ask for Rich