Workshop for Letterpress Printing & Type Studies

Founded2003
Registered5 Mar 08
ProprietorJens Jørgen Hansen, bogtrykker
Record keeperbogtrykkeren
AddressNorregade 85
Holsted DK-6670
Denmark
Profile

The Workshop has a well equipped composing room with around 200 cases of Monotype and foundry type, an A2 flatbed proofing press from J.G.A. Eickhoff, Copenhagen 1963, and an A5 table top platen from A. Hogenforst, Leipzig approximately 1880.
As a special recourse to the Workshop, there is a large collection of Type Specimens, periodicals and books relating to the history of letterpress printing, typography, type design and casting of printing types.

bogtryk(at)hansen.mail.dk

image: The composing room

The composing room