Stumptown Printers closes twice a year to offer time to all our workers for respite and re-inspiration. This often takes the form of travel to fiddle festivals, camping or bike trips, band tours, family visits, or printing workshops & conferences. The 2013 summer break may even include Jury Duty for Lisa!
We will be closed the week of June 17th, reopening on June 25th for regular business.
We have been slowly (but surely) adding new blank packaging offerings to our on-line store. The newest is the 2-Panel Sleeve in French Black Muscletone. Simple, sturdy, classy …..
May Day! Whoa fellow humans, that was dignified. A day off in the middle of the week. I hope you all had a good Labo(u)r Day yesterday as well. It was a beautiful day in Portland, Oregon and though we love the work here at the shop, it’s nice to catch some of that sunshine and fresh spring air. We’re back at it now, the shop is open and the presses are humming along.
Tonight is the launch party for Portland Made. We’ll be there. A lot of folks are putting their sweat, blood and tears into getting this grassroots network rolling. And that’s on top of the sweat, blood and tears that they are already putting into their own small businesses. Impressive. We bow down to everyone chipping in to make this happen. It’s going to be nice to pop-the-cork to Portland Made and pat some backs tonight. You can watch the launch video above. I say a few words at the end of the video. My mother watched it and thought that I was stoned when Will from Megamouth filmed this. Ahh, Mom! Anyway, we’re honored to be a part of the Portland Made collective and we’re excited to see you tonight. Oh, and we’ll be very un-stoned.
Portland
Oregon
2013
Photo of the Stumptown Printers’ Linotype taken with good old honest film!
Love the way new cutting dies look. So clean. Glowing even. At this point, they don’t appear to be tools subject to the brutal “60 tons of impressional strength” that the press puts them through. Their glow won’t last long, but the marks of a long die cutting run are quite handsome, too. At least we think so.
The Heidelberg 13x18 has been hungry for the new dies. Wearing its finest die cutting jacket, and free of its form rollers it has been eagerly feeding (upon) custom paper creations, product packaging, hang tags, die cut business cards as well some of our new music packaging designs. Yum.
Elizabeth Roberts Architecture detail on Flickr.
Zeyneb has been busy documenting some of the printing that happens around here. Here’s an example. Nice photo work, Zeyneb!
View from the Stumptown Printers loading door. 5:46 PM March 22, 2013.
View from the Stumptown Printers loading door. 1:48 PM March 21, 2013. Rain. Motor vehicles were not injured during this photo shoot.
Arigato! We convinced our buddy Luong who is a veteran Heidelberg pressman to put down his fishing pole long enough to help us crank out a big run of blank Arigato Pak! album (CD) covers. So at the moment we have plenty of Chip, Duplex (white on one side, chip on the other) and a limited amount in heavy black paper stock. Thanks to all of you who have been ordering our blank Arigato Pak! covers for your special edition releases. Lucky for us, this press run reminded Luong how much fun it is to operate the kind of machines that we have around here so we’re hoping to see more of him. Arigato!
