Enter the magical world of letterpress printing. I love these old videos that show how things should be done on a letterpress if people actually used in a fashion they were originally created for. In a modern digital age we have adapted them to use photopolymer or metal plates and found that they can place a beautiful impression into thick buttery papers. While I still use lead and wood type regularly I an very picky about how much pressure I actually want impose on them. If I am going for a nice deep impression I use a polymer or metal plate. That way I don’t ruin the lard to find handset type lead and wood that I have collected.