Harold spent a few hours downstairs in the letterpress shop today taking some really great atmospheric photos of our presses and our printers. Nothing looks better to us than bright ink on a Heidelberg Windmill under dramatic lighting conditions! We’ll be posting more pictures from our shop’s photo shoot to Boxcar’s flickr account in the next week or so. In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving! Today we’re being grateful for the creation of letterpress and cast iron, and also for you, all of our awesome letterpress-loving customers. We’ll be thinking of you all as we eat our tofurkeys! (By the way, our offices are closed Nov. 27, Thursday, and Nov. 28, Friday).

Our friend and fellow book lover Amanda recently gave us this ultra cool picture book: Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press! The Boxcar Baby and the Boxcar Dad fought over who would get to read it at bedtime last night. After quite a tussle, the Boxcar Dad won. His favorite spread: when Gutenberg’s print shop got foreclosed because he couldn’t make his loan repayments. Read it and weep.