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By Brian Smith , January 24, 2015

Letterpress Courses March 2015

On Sat 21st and Sunday 22nd March we shall be running half day Letterpress Workshops from 10.0pm till 3.00pm with a 30 min break for lunch (bring your own packed lunch) BOOKING ESSENTIAL £60 per person THESE COURSES ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED You will be able to achieve a unique piece of your own work. Examples of work actually produced are below: [nggallery id=3] The workshops will cover basic areas of ‘letterpress’ printing, with one-to-one te...

By Brian Smith , January 24, 2015

Letterpress Open Day

  At our OPEN DAY on SUNDAY 1st FEBRUARY, which is completely free, you can come and have a go at Letterpress Printing. You can print this Valentines Card on our Arab Treadle Press from 10 till 4.00pm. (you can also personalise it). We shall have our Intertype Linecaster running and our Hot Foil Press, ...

By Brian Smith , January 14, 2015

Letterpress Courses

  Also we shall be having an OPEN DAY on SUNDAY 1st FEBRUARY, completely free, come and have a go at Letterpress Printing from 10 till 4.00pm. We shall have our Intertype Linecaster running and our Hot Foil Press, We also have an Arab Treadle Press and hopefully our Vandercook will be ready. Please see www.ruffordprinting.co.uk Booking Essential) ...

By Brian Smith , January 14, 2015

Graphic Designer

We are looking for an additional graphics person in the new year on a part time basis. We are looking for someone with skills in Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop and to be flexible enough to put up with our working environment! If you think that's you, call in for a chat sometime....

By Brian Smith , January 5, 2015

Open Days and Courses

As you do at this time of year we have been looking at our calendar and deciding dates for our LETTERPRESS EVENTS. On Sat 10th and Sunday 11th Jan; and Feb 14th and 15th we shall be holding a Letterpress Course from 10.00 till 3.00 (5 hours here in the workshop) We stop for 30 mins for lunch (bring a packed lunch) Also we shall be having an OPEN DAY on SUNDAY 1st FEBRUARY, completely free, come and have a go at Letterpress Printing from 10 till 4.00pm....

By Brian Smith , October 31, 2014

Cedar Farm Calendar

This week we have been very busy prnting The Cedar Farm Calendar for 2015, dont forget to come along and collect your FREE copy on the PREVIEW EVENING November 12th. Here are some pics    ...

By Brian Smith , October 25, 2014

Save the Date Cards

We have recently hot foiled some save the date cards in Rose gold, you can see the full gallery at http://www.ruffordprinting.co.uk/wedding-stationery-gallery/nggallery/wedding-stationery/emma-mcphersonpeter-hoskins...

By Brian Smith , October 25, 2014

Open Day October 12th 2014

We had a very busy day on the 12th at our Open Day, lots of people trying their hand at Letterpress Printing for FREE. Also quite a few ex-printers who came to see our Intertype Machine working. Watch out for the next one....

By Brian Smith , October 10, 2014

Intertype Boxes for Sale

We have found a couple of boxes in our works that were made in the 70's. They were used to put the tools and spares in of our Intertype Linecasting Machine. They are very sought after. We already have 3 of them so we are looking to sell them. Our Intertype Machine will be running and demonstrating at our OPEN DAY this Sunday 12th October 2014 between 10.30 and 3.30pm...

By Brian Smith , October 7, 2014

Open Day 12th October 2014

On Sunday 12th October (this Sunday coming) we are having an OPEN DAY the event will run from 10.30am till 3.30pm when you will be able to come and try your hand at Letterpress printing, free! You will be able to print the card in the pictures and it should be possible to personalise it with a strap line "Printed by…………"...