Call him what you want. Authentic or outdated, Stephen Quick is keeping the craft of traditional printmaking alive and a part of this community. This is the story of the printmaker.
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- Letterpress printing is often done on manual, or semi-manual presses. It can be exhausting work, but for Ottawa printer Stephen Quick, it is worth it.
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- Check out the detail in Stephen Quick’s final products. Each letter of typeface gets laid by hand, and every image needs to be carved on a plate before it is printed.
Credits
Produced by Peter Rukavina, filmed by Erica Giancola, interviewer Talia Di Domenico and edited by Talia Di Domenico, Erica Giancola and Peter Rukavina
Music
Courtesy of bensound.com
Special Thanks to Stephen and Gail Quick