organization | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com Boston-Based Printing & Instruction in the Antique Art of Letterpress Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:34:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://reflexletterpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-R-Colon-32x32.gif organization | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com 32 32 143383451 MOAR TYPE CASES https://reflexletterpress.com/moar-type-cases/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:34:34 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=923 I finally bit the bullet and got yet another type cabinet with included California type cases. I think this will finally get a handle on the wood type cases that are floating around the shop and all the wood type that’s still stored in Tupperwares. Don’t forget, the Printers Happy Hour is in ten days!

The post MOAR TYPE CASES first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> I finally bit the bullet and got yet another type cabinet with included California type cases. I think this will finally get a handle on the wood type cases that are floating around the shop and all the wood type that’s still stored in Tupperwares.

Don’t forget, the Printers Happy Hour is in ten days!

The post MOAR TYPE CASES first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> 923 Organization Begins… https://reflexletterpress.com/organization-begins/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:02:44 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=790 It’s been a wild six months, and some of the early organizing decisions are starting to shake out after enough time using the space. I covered the window, put up shelving, and pulled the industrial shelf out and set it on casters. This looks like a good start!

The post Organization Begins… first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> It’s been a wild six months, and some of the early organizing decisions are starting to shake out after enough time using the space. I covered the window, put up shelving, and pulled the industrial shelf out and set it on casters. This looks like a good start!

  • First round shelves, sheetrock with fotprints
  • Second round shelves, Kilz applied
The post Organization Begins… first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> 790 Wood Type Now Organized! https://reflexletterpress.com/wood-type-now-organized/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 18:40:52 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=451 I was perfectly happy to have my wood type organized by letter, which meant that you’d have to dig through several cases to find similar typefaces for proper typesetting, but was a quick and easy organizational principle. Amazingly enough, one of my renters and letterpress compatriots told me he loved doing that kind of work, …

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The post Wood Type Now Organized! first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> I was perfectly happy to have my wood type organized by letter, which meant that you’d have to dig through several cases to find similar typefaces for proper typesetting, but was a quick and easy organizational principle. Amazingly enough, one of my renters and letterpress compatriots told me he loved doing that kind of work, so we now have a full cabinet (and some plastic bins) full of wood type organized by typeface.

What wonders! I’ll be able to fit in the new wood type I got from friends who went to Brimfield Antique Market a couple weeks ago and decided I didn’t have enough.

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