It was not a hockey night so there was no game on the radio - just
the sound of the press. A quiet evening:
the ink, the paper, the form, the press and me.
Have you ever heard about the joy of
printing? It is a fabulous affliction. Not enough people get to experience it,
in my opinion.
I got my SP15 proof press about fifteen years
ago and I first debated whether I should buy it or not. I then asked Marie
Lessard, a wonderful illustrator and artist, what she thought about it. She had
witnessed artists doing wonders with polymer plates in New York City...
So, I bought it. I moved it...a few times.
Some parts broke....got repaired thank god for Alain Debanné who knows so much.
At the beginning, I did not know how it worked and knew very
little about typography and letterpress other then I loved it. Martin Dufour,
RCA, my studio neighbor at the time, had one just like it and a few others, so
I got to learn, and experiment and mess up and try again ...for few years. I
owe him a lot.
So it was a hockeyless night - just a
quiet printing night and a truly fantastic episode of the infectious and simple joy of
printing!
(P.S. picture taken after I cleaned the press!)
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