Articles about Letterpress Maintenance

Printers have a duty to their presses and to all future printers to properly care for and maintain these antique and irreplaceable machines. Share your maintenance techniques and promote happy, healthy letterpresses.

Maintenance Log

Maintenance Schedules

Discovering potential faults with your printing press before they turn into damage or failures is worth the extra effort and care. For the sake of simplicity the maintenance tasks described below are generalized and are not specific to make or model. Adapt suggestions as indicated; specialized maintenance tasks as required … Continue reading →