Letterpress Club About to Get Evicted

By Bob Neubauer

Credit: Fox43

Diehard printers might know that a piece of type is .918 of an inch high. Ken Kulakowsky knows this. He founded the .918 Club to keep the art of letterpress printing alive, and has spent years demonstrating to students in central Pennsylvania how printing was an integral part of the history they were studying.

But now his efforts are being threatened due to his host’s need for space. Unless he can find a new home for his heavy cast iron presses, letterpress may, in fact, fade away in Lancaster, Pa.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.