Gary Kohler and the folks at Shoreline Press will be hosting our next Book Arts Santa Cruz meeting on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 from 5-8 PM. If you need further directions, please call Shoreline Press at (831) 475-6387. Any and all interested in the book arts are invited to come socialize and see the operations. Mr. Kohler and staff plan to have ink on the presses in "production" for the first hour, followed by tours and mingling. Please bring pot-luck finger food. Here is some info about Shoreline Press with photos:
Shoreline Press, old school—letterpress equipment dating from 1890, new school-2.5 kw solar system that has generated over 33240 kilowatt hours of electricity since 2004. We do letterpress printing, die cutting, scoring, perforating, numbering, foil stamping, embossing, de-bossing and kiss cutting.
Shoreline Press has been in business in Santa Cruz County since 1982 and currently has eight letterpresses. Equipment includes 1 Chandler & Price, 2 Kluges, 1 Heidelberg GTP, 4 Heidelberg TP , 1 Nu Aru Process Camera, 1 AV photo polymer plate maker, and a 36” Senator cutter.
The letterpress equipment will be in operation from 5:00 pm to about 6:00 pm before the meeting.
Shoreline Press is located at: 2551 South Rodeo Gulch Road, #12
Soquel, California
Please RSVP to confirm your attendance to bookartssantacruz@gmail.com
For more information about Book Arts Santa Cruz, call Peter Thomas (831) 475-1455
