Hatch Show Print "Live From The Troubadour" Letterpress - Poster

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION - Limited Edition Hatch Show Print “Tanya Tucker Live From The Troubadour” Letterpress Poster (All Net Proceeds donated to The Troubadour) About Hatch Show Print: Letterpress printing is a process in which raised, inked surfaces—usually made of wood, metal, or linoleum—are pressed onto paper. This practice is essentially the same method of relief printing that was invented in the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg, using movable type, hand-carved blocks, and hand-cranked printing presses. Designs carved on wood blocks combine with movable letters of wood or metal. These elements are positioned backwards, and locked into a frame, or “chase,” secured in a printing press, and inked. The paper is pressed onto the inked type to obtain an impression that is right-reading. Posters with more than one color require separate assemblages, or “forms,” for each color. Each application of additional color requires a new pass of the paper through the press. Today, Hatch Show