In recent years, there has been an increased interest in letterpress by people who did not actually witness it being used as the most common technique of commercial printing. Impracticable for large-scale production today, the technique has been revived and is being adopted by a growing number of graphic artists, designers and publishers.

In associations and studios who restore old machines and typefaces so often destined to become scrap metal, in the few old commercial letterpress shops that still exist or in schools and universities who recognize the importance of letterpress in the path and training of graphic designers, it is considerable the amount of very stimulating work we have seen over the last few years.

With the goal of bringing together for the first time in Portugal practitioners and people interested in letterpress and show the different approaches that are currently being made, we have decided to organize TIPO um Encontro de Impressores Tipográficos [TIPO – A Meeting of Letterpress Printers] in Ponta Delgada.