WORKSHOP Introduction to Typesetting and Letterpress Printing

Introduction to Typesetting
and Letterpress Printing Workshop
2-3 July, 2011

taught by Margaret Lock, at 231 Johnson Street, Kingston

Participants will learn basic typographic design 
concepts, and how to set lead type by hand and 
print on a Vandercook proof press. The workshop 
will cover setting type, letter-spacing capitals, 
imposition, proofing, registration, and printing 
on handmade paper. As an exercise, participants 
will design and print a broadside up to 10 x 14 
inches in size. The text should be a poem of up 
to 20 lines, or a piece of prose of fewer than 
160 words. Notes and all materials are provided. 
Space is limited to three students, so pre-registration is necessary.
The workshop hours are 9:30am-5:30pm.
The cost for each participant is $185.
(A non-refundable deposit of $50 is payable when participants register.)

If you have a favourite poem or piece of prose 
that you want to print, and if you are intrigued 
by letterpress printing, you should enjoy this workshop.
Please contact Margaret Lock at 613 544-3505;
or 231 Johnson St., Kingston, ON K7L 1Y2
or lockfp@queensu.ca

Margaret Lock holds an Honours Degree from 
McMaster University, Hamilton, and a Diploma of 
Visual Communication from Goldsmiths’ College, 
University of London. She is a private press 
printer and printmaker. An exhibition of her 
woodcuts was held at the Agnes Etherington Art 
Centre in 2002. Work produced by Locks’ Press can 
be viewed on the following web sites:
• Library and Archives Canada, Canadian Private Presses
• McMaster University Library, Perspectives in Canadian Publishing
An article on the press was published in The 
Private Library, 5th series, 10.1 (Spring, 2007) pages 2-26.