Category Archives: Printing and Printing Processes

Various printing processes.

The last offset press at PRINT?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I was trying to figure out how many times I have visited Chicago to attend the GraphExpo and PRINT shows. I think it’s nearly 40. I wasn’t able to attend for a few years because of travel conflicts, and I … Continue reading →

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These two caught my eye

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Brian Lawler

At last week’s PRINT13 convention I saw a lot of machines. Most of these machines were incremental improvements on machines I have seen before, and some were not of interest to me because I have limited my bandwidth recently to … Continue reading →

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Epson’s new dye-sublimation printers enter the market for ink-jet printed fabric

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Brian Lawler

My friends at Epson were showing a couple of new ink-jet printers at PRINT13, printers which are designed to fit into the fabric printing industry. I’m working on a project right now that involves dye-sublimation printing, and I was impressed … Continue reading →

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A Big Sur solution to overprint errors

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Brian Lawler

As I was winding south from Big Sur last Friday, where I had spent the day making a GigaPan image of the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Beach, my phone rang (I had been in a No Service area for over … Continue reading →

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Rewiring the Linotype machine

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I’ve not blogged in quite a while, for which I apologize to my faithful readers. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything going on. It was that I had writer’s blog. I couldn’t come up with anything to say about … Continue reading →

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The largest machines in the world

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Brian Lawler

Yesyerday morning a group of TAGA participants visited the Longview, Washington, paper-making plant of NORPAC. This is the largest paper-making facility in North America. Inside its massive buildings are three of the largest machines on Earth. These machines are for … Continue reading →

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Fonts were not always universal

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Brian Lawler

We are now into the second generation of young people who have no memory of a time before PostScript and PDF, people who were not adults when we had competing font formats. I put this era into the bigger era … Continue reading →

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Bad typography is not easy

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Brian Lawler

My friend Jim is a car aficionado, mechanic, driver, restorer and collector. His favorite cars are Fords from 1933, and he has one that is very special, a custom built street rod with some 1933 Ford parts. It is a … Continue reading →

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Bookbinding with needle and thread

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Brian Lawler

I am teaching a class in book design and bookbinding this quarter. I have 30 students in the class; they are working on their manuscripts and will soon be working on their book blocks and book cases. This involves printing, … Continue reading →

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Things I learned on my recent trip to Chicago

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Brian Lawler

Back from Chicago a full week, I was reviewing my notes last night, and I have a handful of observations to share with you. This year I wore my fedora, with my Blognosticator “PRESS” card sticking out of it. I … Continue reading →

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