lovely short film on letterpress

A friend just sent me the link to this short doco on letterpress, by filmmaker Danny Cooke. It's beautifully shot and well worth a look for anyone interested in the process. Like most modern letterpress studios, we use photopolymer plates to print our work (not metal type as shown in the film), but the rest of the process is pretty much what you see here. Painstaking, meticulous and a true labour of love, letterpress printing is not for the faint-hearted (or the impatient). But that is exactly why we love it - it really does create something that can't be achieved with any other printing method. There is nothing like that crisp impression into soft cotton paper!

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.