Miscellaneous

Go into print! If you'd like a small machine to start printing for yourself, the Adana printing press is illustrated on the left. A complete printing kit including type, composing stick, chases and ink can be supplied.

If you are interested in early printing equipment such as printers' type and printing presses for use in films, television, advertising and display, or for educational purposes in schools, colleges and museums, then please contact us.

The Old Printing Shop can supply metal alphabets to be used in printing presses. We have an excellent selection from 6pt to 48pt in both upper and lower case. Please contact the Old Printing Shop for details and current availability.

Bookbinding tools are used to emboss leather or fabric covers, but our customers frequently use them to personalise books by stamping a pattern or initial on the flyleaf, or simply as a frank underneath the signature on a letter. Click on the image on the right for a better view of some of the patterns available.

Woodcuts are similar to wooden printing blocks, but rather than attaching a copper or alloy image to a wooden block, the image is carved directly into the surface of a piece of wood. This is a difficult process and a skilled craftsman with a good block of wood can create fine detail and excellent images. We always have a varied range of woodcuts available - please contact us for details. Click on the image on the left for a closer view of a few examples.

Specimen sheets are high quality examples of different typefaces. Great care is taken by the typesetter and printer to ensure first class results, each page typically showing a complete alphabet and a piece of text, possibly in several weights.We have a number of specimen sheets for different typefaces, mounted on card and ready for framing.

Contact us for details and current availability.