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'Letterpress for All!' zine series

Contributing to letterpress being accessible for all.

Letterpress for All zine covers
Letterpress for All! zine covers

Zines completed, awaiting 2026 journal publication for release

  1. Brioche #1: Vandercookin’ for All Types & Sorts: An intro to typesetting, makeready, & printing your 1st print on a Vandercook press by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
  2. Brioche #2: Just my type: finding, buying, or making your 1st letterpress type by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
  3. Brioche #3: My First Press: Accessing or buying a press for letterpress printing by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
  4. Brioche #4: Moveable Text Art Now!: (What am I trying to impress?) (Do I even need a printing press?) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Good letterpress luck??

Could the type zine lead to a Surprise Press? Who can say!!!
Screenshot of a Bluesky tweet where Andy Famiglietti says "Thanks to a chain of info links from a draft zine
@literaturegeek.bsky.social shared with me to the vandercook press website to my university art department I may have a line on some kind of press (not the big nice vandercook they once had, it is alas gone) STAY TUNED PRINT NERDS"

Forthcoming zines

5. (DRAFTED) When the press rollers just right: calibrating roller height on the Vandercook printing press (Letterpress for All! Brioche #5)
6. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Rainbow Rolls: How to print with gradient inks! (aka split fountains; for Vandercook & cylinder presses) (Letterpress for All! Brioche #6)
7. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Loaded Letterpress: How I plan complex broadsides (Letterpress for All! Brioche #7)
8. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Tidy Tympans: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Universal Press (Letterpress for All! Brioche #8)

Covers of three of the letterpress zines described just above

Other free letterpress zines I’ve made

These aren’t in the peer-reviewed set of 4 “Letterpress for all!” series zines, but are still letterpress-related:

Covers of three of the letterpress zines described just above

Letterpress for All zine series logo