ChaseLetterpress & Bindery
Commission

Chase — Est. shop floor

We lock the chase, pull the proof.

A working letterpress print shop and hand bindery in Portland.

Specimen Plate — Live

Ink bleeding into fibre, in real time.

A running simulation of anisotropic ink diffusion along paper grain — not a video.

How We Work

  1. Compose — digitally, or by hand from our type case.
  2. Lock-up — wedged tight into a steel chase.
  3. Impression — Vandercook proof, Windmill for volume.
  4. Bindery — folding, scoring, hand assembly.
Letterpress print with colorful MERRY GO ROUND lettering and stars

180, private mailing list

Holiday Card Commission
Letterpress-printed sheets and prints stacked at a print shop counter

300 sets per season

Restaurant Menu Card Set
Large letterpress broadside print in bold multicolor wood type

75, signed and numbered

Limited Edition Poetry Broadside — ‘Low Tide’

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220gsm (81lb cover)

Cotton Rag 220gsm

220gsm (110lb cover)

Crane’s Lettra Pearl White

Shop Marks

The manicule

Printer's fist

“They told me the paper weight before a single adjective about craftsmanship.”

Creative Director, regional hospitality group

Shop Marks

The fleuron

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Aldus leaf ornament

Journal

Notes from the pressroom

Shop Marks

The asterism

Section-break mark

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Hand sorting metal type sorts into a letterpress job case

500 (standard run)

Letterpress Business Card Run
Stack of soft-white eggshell-finish paper sheets

118gsm text / 250gsm cover

Mohawk Superfine Soft White

Commission a Piece

Tell us what you need printed — and on what.