Western Editions

About Western Editions

Letterpress is magic. At least we think so. But back to the point: Letterpress is a relief printing process. A raised surface (your design plate or type, which are left-reading) is inked and a sheet of paper is fed (with some force) over the surface, thus transferring ink to paper and creating a right-reading image. Western Editions prints on a Vandercook press, so this process is done one sheet of paper at a time, requiring a lot of skill and craftsmanship, and a good amount of patience as well. It is a dated technology that digital and offset printing wiped out in the 1960s. The care we put into each print, card, and line of type is a hands-on analog process. The finished product is a piece of paper with a printed quality you can see. And feel. And that is what we love about it.