The Clinker Press

09/11/2022

Beautiful sad evidence of the nearby fires.

02/25/2022

They knew it in 1924!

08/23/2021

For those who may be interested I have a shortboresentatiin for the Alcuin Society entitled Clinker Press Shavings on YouTube. You may need to add Alcuin to get it.

06/02/2021

Dave Seat, linecaster machinist extraordinaire, came to visit The Clinker Press and solved a number of problems with the Intertype. We should no so thankful that he is willing to repair, adjust and teach you how not to need him. Too bad, we like him and want him to return. Thanks Dave.

04/11/2021

Well, it’s my printing shop, so if Klipshorn speakers are desired they get chosen. Incredible sound is this large room. Big enough for the Klipsh.

04/11/2021

Binsey Poplars printed last year.I just love Hopkins after I read enough times to understand him.

03/29/2021

Most recent Clinker Press pamphlet.

03/29/2021

03/01/2021

Project from hell, but not for me. Asked to print the cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. They want the typeset piece and the printed sheet to be framed together. I sai: it's going to be a little heavy 🧐

12/08/2020

For the cognoscenti only...

09/30/2020

I acquired this tablet representing two pages of the Analects of Confucius, all hand carved. I haven't found a typo yet...just kidding. It is beautiful as it it but I'm planning to print it as a wood block and have it translated.

08/16/2020

Now that I have a new printing press I can start printing my new projects.😂

02/26/2020

Sexism in History. Quote from an article in The Progressive Printer, 1909 about the Linotype. "The rapid increase in the number of lady operators on the Linotype has induced an inventor to perfect an attachment which contains a mirror and a can of complexion powder. The merits of this invention are very apparent (!), if however the office devil should transpose the complexion powder can with a graphite can, the result would be deplorable.

01/17/2020

This is my current Website with my Webmaster.

12/13/2019

I love to design a poster and go to the press and play with colors...unfortunately this is not a computer so after each change of color I have to clean the press

11/05/2019

Broadside and booklet with a James Joyce poem "Fire from a Burner". He wrote this as if he were the printer (Falconer)who agreed to print Dubliners and then read it and burned the edition. Satiric and scatological but great. Dated 1912. I printed it on a Brazilian handmade paper by Moinho Brasil.

10/06/2019

Preparation for a future project: Leaves of Grass as a prose poem...I do have my reasons.

08/06/2019

My grandson contemplating his next job on the V50 Miehle Vertical.

06/26/2019

Every once in a while a man comes up with an idea that, at first, seems most reasonable but in just a short time he finds that he wished he had had a momentary fail in the brain neuron connexion and had not come up with this cockamany idea of stripping the old Albion and painting it. More to come (if I survive the endeavor).

04/09/2019

A little inspiration for printing today.

03/10/2019

Finished typesetting a piece on early William Morris written 8 years after his death. Now, prof, proof, proof.

01/25/2019

One of the Lectures at the Arts and Crafts Conference in Asheville this year will be on Ruskin...my favorite author (I actually read him) so I came up with this for the show. It printed really well on this paper. Remember this is just a photo of the letterpress printed broadside. See you there or at Codex!

01/23/2019

Under the recommendation of our son, Eric, we went to the Willamette Heritage Museum in Salem OR. Wonderful textile museum with all the great machines still in place. However, I found the only printing item there, one that prints US on to the blankets approved by the military. It made my day!

01/15/2019

Preparing for two events. Codex in Richfield CA (well, Berkeley really) and the Arts and Crafts hoopla at the Grove Park Inn. This is the first printed item (from the new shop in Tualatin)

12/03/2018

The Clinker Press updated their phone number.

The Clinker Press updated their phone number.

12/03/2018

After the complicated (long) move of the Press I'm ready for my first project. A short Biography of Morris written by Elisabeth Luther Cary, who wrote a larger one but published a short version in "The Critic". The piece is very scarce so worthwhile reprinting it. I'll use Janson as the typeface which was favored by Morris and became the bases for his Golden typeface.It may be ready for Codex but probably by the Arts and Crafts Conferencewin Asheville.

11/12/2018

The Clinker Press updated their address.

The Clinker Press updated their address.

09/28/2018

The Clinker Press updated their business hours.

The Clinker Press updated their business hours.

06/30/2018

Dave Seat is coming to visit The Clinker Press tomorrow to treat my Intertype which has been sick. Looking forward to having my baby working well.

04/23/2018

During our visit to Coimbra to see the wonderful Library we encountered this beautiful and unusual Hand Press (The handle is pulled from the back of the machine as far as I could tell.

03/31/2018

The only beer a Printer should drink.

03/20/2018

Clinker Press (well, I) will be giving a lecture for the Double Crown Club in London and I printed a booklet about choosing a scientific speaker from the Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine of 1824. It's a hoot!

09/11/2017

This will make you feel so old!

This will make you feel so old!

09/07/2017

After many months here is the William Morris Portfolio. Five views of Kelmscott Manor representing five aspects of Morris artistic endeavors.

06/20/2017

Clinker Press was well represented at the Rose City Book Show