I am located in Toledo, Ohio and I have a Vandercook SP-15 in perfect working condition which I am selling. The price is negotiable, I paid $6000 for the press in 1996, and recast the rollers and refurbished the bed. It will need to be moved out of my type lab (sorry I can’t ship [...]

Hello everyone! I’ve undertaken the task of restoring my 03. I’ve started with paint thinner to degrease the bearings system where the previous owner had it all greased up, and thus it gather a severe amount of gunk. I disassembled the carriage and down to the impression cylinder. I’ve gotten most of the grime off. [...]

Call for Entries: The Vandercook Cocktail To honor the Vandercook Proof Press, it’s history and significance, and it’s place in our lives, a competition has been created for the design of the specialty cocktail to carry its name. “The Vandercook Cocktail” will be chosen from recipe submissions gathered throughout the letterpress community. Testing/tasting will take [...]

As we did this on our Vandercook Universal III, we hoped some of you might be interested. leadgraffiti.com/news/tour-de-lead-graffiti . . . We would love for everyone to take a look at our effort in ‘endurance letterpress’ we called Tour de Lead Graffiti. We wanted to do a series of typographic posters that took the memorable [...]

I am selling my beloved press! I have come to a very difficult decision, but have decided to sell my Vandercook. It is in excellent, excellent condition. It needs no work at all. Hardly any rust. Cylinder, rails, bed and rollers all in good shape. It has a delivery tray behind the carriage which makes [...]