Heritage Press Museum at Building Character

07/05/2022

The .918 Club has now gone International!

A global community of printers, from Toronto to Australia, who still use mechanical printing press, are determined to keep spreading the word.

03/20/2022

The March meeting of The .918 Club of Lancaster, PA will be held Saturday March 26 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm at The Ken Kulakowsky Center for Letterpress and Book Arts at 117 Parkside Avenue, Lancaster on the campus of Thaddeus Stevens College on Orange.



The meeting will follow the usual agenda: an update on The .918 Club activities, show and tell, and discussion of all things letterpress. In addition, Randy Newcomer of Ephrata will demonstrate the Provisional Press he built from a kit for less than $200. The flatbed press will print type, linoleum cuts, and photopolymer plates.

Members and guests will also have an opportunity to see progress in the setup of the center.



For more information or directions, contact Paul Gough at [email protected] or call (860) 316-8668.

03/12/2022

Alan was a good friend of The .918 Club having visited Lancaster to see The Heritage Press Museum. He was also able to attend one of our Lancaster Printers Fair. He was all things Kelsey and was invaluable in helping get our numerous Kelsey presses operational. His expertise will be missed by many.

Frenchtown NJ- Alan Walter Runfeldt, age 72, died peacefully at home in Frenchtown NJ on Tuesday March 8, 2022. He was born on December 12, 1949, in Maywood New Jersey to his loving parents the late Geraldine and Andrew Runfeldt. Alan graduated from Governor Livingston Regional High School in Berkel...

11/26/2021

Sotheby's auction house, which staged the sale, said the item was one of only 13 known surviving copies of the US charter. It sold for $43million to a mystery investor at auction in New York on Thursday.

11/25/2021

I guess you heard about Johannes Gutenberg, German craftsman and inventor, who originated a method of printing from movable type, around 1440, which ...

11/23/2021

Our museum’s 12 x 18 Chandler & Price platen press’s ink disk will only rotate through part of a cycle. It stops and has to be moved by hand before it will begin turning on its own but once it makes one revolution it stops. The disk seems to be controlled by a friction device instead of the ratchet like the ones on our other presses. The video shows the press operating with the side plate off the drive unit but the disk is not turning. Looking for suggestions on how to solve this problem as stopping to turn the disk by hand is getting tiresome.

09/10/2021

The annual Lancaster Printer’s Fair and Wayzgoose will be held Friday and Saturday September 17-18 at The Ken Kulakowsky Center for Letterpress and Book Arts on the Campus on Orange of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 117 Parkside Avenue, Lancaster, PA.

The event will feature demonstrations, activities for both letterpress printers and the public, and vendors selling printing equipment, type, supplies, and letterpress printed items. Presses, a Ludlow, and a Linotype which will be available to users once the center is open for classes and studio use will be operating.

Vendors selling items and supplies of interest to letterpress printers include:

Heritage Press Museum of Lancaster PA

John Barret’s Letterpress Things of Chicopee MA
Boxcar Press, Syracuse, NY

Excelsior Press of Frenchtown NJ

P22 Type Foundry of Rochester NY

Letterpress printers displaying and selling items they print include:

Freshly Pressed Prints of Lancaster PA

Gingerly Press of Pittsburgh PA
Memory Press of Plainsboro NJ

Base Press of Philadelphia PA

Leland Manufactory of Baltimore MD

Bowerbox Press of Monkton MD

Sea Heart City Press of Philadelphia PA

Typothecary Letterpress of Lancaster PA

Rexmake of Harrisburg PA
The Itinerant Printer of Buffalo NY

In addition to the Heritage Press Museum of Lancaster, several printer organizations, including the Conestoga Press of Ephrata PA and the American Printing History Association Chesapeake Chapter will have booths.

The Wayzgoose and Letterpress sale and tours will be at The Ken Kulakowsky Center on Friday September 17 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The sale will continue, and the Printer’s Fair will be held, at The Ken Kulakowsky Center on Saturday September 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Center is at the corner of Clark Street and Parkside Avenue. Use 51 Parkside Avenue, Lancaster PA as a GPS address. Full directions are available on the web at www.lancasterprintersfair.org. Admission is free both days. There is ample free parking nearby.

This two day event benefits The Heritage Press Museum & The Center for Letterpress and Book Arts.

02/21/2021

Our Center for Letterpress and Book Arts on the campus of Thaddeus Stevens College of technology is getting closer to being finished.

02/12/2020

See our presses in action Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday each week. Proud member of the 300 Block of North Queen Street in Downtown Lancaster.