Meeting Nº13: Don Black Linecasting road trip recap

On September 19 & 26, Ligatures, along with the help of Tanya at Snap + Tumble Letterpress, organized 2 road trips to Don Black Linecasting in Scarborough.

Through the course of the visit, we were able to see dozen of amazing letterpress machines – some dating back to the turn of the 20th century – as well as cases and cases of type. We got to cast our names in lead (pictured above) and see these small letterforms printed on a proofing press (last photo).

Thanks again to Albert for offering such an informative tour, and to Don Black himself for the amazing historical anecdotes and the demo of the Intertype machine.

Please get in touch if you'd like to see more excursions like this in the future!