Murray Sampson, owner 

Two Thousand Pounds of Letterpress, LLC

Two Thousand Pounds of Letterpress is a letterpress shop located in “The Center of the Universe”, Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, WA, where fine coffee, artist’s studios, and grassroots businesses thrive. We specialize in paper goods such as stationery, invitations, announcements and product packaging from wine labels to CD inserts and posters. We only print in letterpress, allowing us to focus 100% on the artisanal style of traditional printing- delivering the very best in quality to our customers the way Gutenburg intended.

Our blog is part business blog, part history blog, with posts about the history of type founding, printing, and the book.