Robert Giles 20th Century Letterpress Printing
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2014
- Letterpress printing has not dead yet. Robert Giles is proud to be the third generation letterpress printer. Giles followed his grandfather and father’s footstep and career path and started working at newspaper companies as a printer since his early twenties.
Over the course of his career, Bob witnessed a lot of shifts in the printing industry, especially with the advent of cold type, offset printing and digital printing. However, Giles choose to stay with letterpress printing than modern fancy printing. After his retirement from Shelton Turnbull, Giles opened a letterpress printing shop in his garage. Today, Bob works almost every day in his print. He enjoys doing creative works and serving the clients that he inherited from his dad.
I've enjoyed watching this video. I live in England, I loved to walk around you workshop just for a day, keep going!
truly inspiring. I hope you are able to get a handful of local people interested in the process and perhaps keeping it alive in your neighborhood. Your shop is incredibly well equipped, its like a museum. Keep up the good work
Something fascinating about the older printing presses-beautiful to watch
So good to see you keeping the craft alive
As a time served letterpress printer (with the same surname) I feel the same about the scrapping of these wonderful machines.
Thank you for posting the video. Brings back happy memories for me. I spent 40 years in letterpress printing.
Thank you for making such a wonderful video showcasing my Grandpa's passion! I have always wished I lived closer to my Grandpa Bob so that I could spend more time in that shop!
Photopolymer plates can add the creative versatility to keep the workshop in business-look at the demand for bespoke wedding stationary for example
I just bought my first metal lead typefaces the other day for $20. the seller was so happy I bought it after people told her to recycle it. Im 23 years old and know this is something that is disappearing but ill i love it and the history behind it. Computers are cool but theres nothing like touching physical type and inking it
Nice to see the old Linotype once again.
Much more than I had in my shop. Excellent video!
Beautiful and inspiring.
Very nice video!!
Loved the vid, I am trying to get my Ludlow going now but finding large mats for it is a challenge.
Great video and I see a lot of love going into Bobs work. I am a retired printer and loved the trade.
Loved the video!
I feel your print passion
Desiderata, si haré una.
Estamos en 2022, hay menos imprentas, libros, tarjetas, creo que estamos brutos con el celular. La apatía se ve y siente, ¿Ahora quien podrá defendernos?
esto me emociona mucho, soy impresor y creo que las cosas no están bien, hoy estamos 2017, que haremos con un parque de máquinas tan grande sin uso. Quien podrá defendernos?
For small jobs adding the third roller is a waste of ink and time. The third roller only needs to go on when printing a full forme.