You've taken the basic floor model platen press class, but some issues remain perplexing: adjusting the platen and correcting rail height; tight registration; background printing; dampened paper for multiple runs; the niceties of editioning; printing and registering photopolymer plates; combining type, plates, and cuts; printing linos; overlay vs. underlay; roller height; changing ink color on the fly; etc.

Participants design a two-color broadside addressing some of these challenges and others, typeset the text, and dampen paper for the edition. We will print the broadsides while dealing with most of the aforementioned issues and leaping tall buildings.

 Prerequisite: Letterpress Core: Floor Model Platen Press

Materials to bring: None

Workshop + Materials Fee: $175

Prerequisite: Letterpress Core: Floor Model Platen Press

About the Instructor | Lisa Rappoport

Lisa Rappoport publishes poetry broadsides and artists' books under the imprint Littoral Press. Since 1998 she has produced a series of broadsides by the poets who teach at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; she has also printed poetry broadsides for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books, Lyric Poetry Review, and many others (last but not least, the Poets Pulling Prints series of the SFCB). Her poetry has appeared in Five Fingers Review, Literal Latte, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 1998 Icarus Poetry Competition and the recipient of a poetry residency at Centrum. Lisa has taught at the New College in San Francisco, at a middle school in Lafayette, and in her own studio. Her work has been displayed nationally and is in collections throughout the U.S.  You can visit her website athttp://littoralpress.com

Past Student Reviews

“Lisa was Fantastic! Fun, friendly and very educational. I would recommend her to anyone taking this class”

“Lisa is a phenomenal instructor”

“Lisa is an extremely knowledgeable instructor who did a great job balancing lecture and hands on, as well as one-on-one”

“Lisa was so wonderful and so patient in going over steps many times. She gave great tips on troubleshooting press issues”