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Buchdruckerei Nessing
(master craftsman firm, established in 1930)
Buchdruckerei Lutz Nessing (since 1979)
Büchnerweg 92, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof
Phone 00 49 - 30 - 6 77 00 11
The typesetting Offizin & typographic Workshop
Where words still have their weight and impress
with colour ...
Type and Print Heritage
Traditional letterpress printing matters using metal type setting – in the Gutenberg manner – now in the 3rd generation by Lutz Nessing.
Compositor-printer
Lutz Nessing is master craftsman for letterpress typeset:
designer, typesetter, printer,
machinesman: linotype operator and power pressman.
A artist printmaker with high standards of genuine typset and authentic letterpress printing for old and contemporary fine art prints.
Print workshop for antique print methods
This Buchdruckerei is a professional printing services for hand-compositing with metal types or wood letters, hot-metal typesetting with Linotype typecasting machine and letterpress printing – reliefprinting – on 170 square meters.
Quad Royal = the largest format
All print sizes, from the smallest to the largest paper format:
maximum 33,86 x 48.03 (51.18) inch = 86 x 122 (130) cm.
Speciality
It specialises in bibliophils letterpress books, limited editions art-books and original woodblock prints (lino cuts), in collaboration with the creative artists and my emphasis on creative typography using letterpress materials only.
Traditional skills of letterpress printing and
woodblock prints – original works of art
Printing works in limited-editions
Fine quality letterpress book production
artist’s editions, artists books, bibliophiles, book design, bookworks, experimental typography, first editions, fine presses, folios, incunabulae, luxury editions, monographs, original editions, poems, portfolios, prose, typographical books, typographic design ...
Fine printings on fine papers
art prints, bibliophilia, diagrams, facsimiles, graphic arts, half-tone prints, poetry cards, typographic experience, typographic posters, wooden letter posters ...
Woodcuts printed from original block – woodblock prints,
maxi. 33,86 x 48.03 (51.18) inch = 86 x 122 (130) cm
original prints from: wood engravings, lino cuts, broadsheets, line blocks, lead cuts, lead engravings, clair-obscure cuts (chiaroscuro), camaieu prints, book plates, Gaufragen, black-line cuts, white-line cuts, shot cuts, line drawings (from photopolymer plates), line block printings, rubber cuts, wood carvings, frottage, compound plates ...
original-prints with hand-colouring (coloured woodcuts) ...
Printed on a cyliner machine, handpress or hand-printed.
Deep-etching cinco line blocks for letterpress
used both relief and intaglio ...
Combination prints
letterpress printed work with lithography or offset illustrations ...
Typography in the style of Gutenberg’s 'Black Art'
General Printing of all kinds
Commercial & Privat Ephemerals, Domestic Ephemerals:
Address Labels, Advertisements, Ball Cards, Billheads, Bond Papers, Business Annuncements, Celebration Papers, Certificates, Christmas Cards, Chronicles, Circulars, Commercial Arts,Commercial Stationery, Conzert Tickets, Daily Prints, Diplomas, Handbills, Invitation Cards, Jubilee Issues, Memorandums, Mortuary & In Memoriam Cards, New Year's Cards, Pamphlets, Posters, Programmes, Raffle Tickets, Receipt Forms, Show Cards, Soiree Cards, Special Editions, Testimonials, Visiting Cards, Window Bills etc., etc.
The typeset equipment
Large stocks of lead metal hand-setting types
650 fonts letterpress typesetting, old and "modern" faces:
Serif: Geralde Oldstyle, Transitional, Didone
Slab Serif: Egyptian, Italiane
Sans Serif: Neo-Grotesque, Geometric, Humanist
German Types: Textur, Rotunda, Schwabacher, Bastarda
Decorative typefaces, Designer Fonts, Scripts ...
borders, ornaments, decorative rules, typo signales, commerciale vignettes in different styles &c &c
Large stocks of types hot-metal (lead)
from matrix (matrice) for cast of the
Linotype composing and casting machine
250 fonts metal type faces, old and "modern" faces:
Serif: Venetian Oldstyle, Geralde, Transitional, Didone
Slab Serif: Egyptian, Monospaced
Sans Serif: Neo-Grotesque, Geometric, Humanist
Blackletter: Textur, Rotunda, Schwabacher, Bastarda
Foreign languages: European accents, Cyrillic scripts
Wide range of wood letters (Block Letters)
350 fonts various wooden poster typefaces:
Serif, Slab Serif, Sans Serif, Fractur Forms, Varia
Various wood ornaments and rosettes, decorative elements and borders, great selection of vignettes in different styles ...
Blackletters, Broken Scripts, German types
for set by hand (lead) and poster wood letters
Textur (Gothic), Rotunda, Schwabacher, Fracture, Bastarda
Small or large format, maxi. 33,86 x 48.03 (51.18) inch
= 86 x 122 (130) cm
The print equipment
The crafts of mechanical printing
relief printing press (flat-bed):
• hand (lever) press
(Krause, 1850, 50 x 70 cm)
• automatic (platen) printing presses
(Grafopress, 1990, 38 x 27 cm)
• hand feeding stop-cylinder powerpress machine
(Schelter & Giesecke, 1925, 50 x 70 cm)
• Original Heidelberger Cylinder
(OHZ, 1953, 54 x 72 cm)
• stop-cylinder power machines
(Johannisberg, 1924, maxi. 86 x 122 / 130 cm)
The Print processes
metallic printing: bronze ink, gold- silver ink,
bronze-, silver-, gold powders
dotted manner, relief prints, Gaufragen,
blind and coloured embossings, seal imprints
duotone prints
iridescent printing (rainbow colours)
nature imprints
wet-on-wet process ...
mono- & multi-coloured, colour mixing
Mixed media
in combination with etching, lithography, offset prints
Original works of art – small and large editions
unicate, hand-pulled proofs, artist’s proofs, galley proofs, page proofs, press sheets, one-offs ...
on hand-made papers, Japan papers, mould made papers, vat papers, tissue papers, parchment papers, pulp-board ...
... and may yet be printed?
• Typographic and Letterpress Workshop Courses
for Students, Designer, Artists etc etc
letterpress typography, hand-setting,
printing with rubber handcraft and hand machine
The existence actual beginning makes the script.
(Heraclitus)
The "Typographeum":
Typefaces spectrum in this Offizin
650 fonts: lead metal types for hand-set
250 fonts: typefaces for Linotype-set
350 fonts: wooden typefaces, Block-Letters
Typefaces for hand-setting and
Linotype-composing matrices
(size in letterpress Didot-pt)
Aldus-Book: roman + italic
+ Caps (size incomplete)
hand-set: faces or sizes incomplete
Linotype: r + i: 8, 9, 10, 12 pt
Geralde Oldstyle (Mediaeval), from Linotype
Baskerville-Antiqua: roman + italic + medium
+ Caps (size incomplete)
hand-set: faces or sizes incomplete
Linotype: 9, 10, 12 pt
Previctorial (Transitional), from Linotype
Bodoni-Antiqua: roman + italic + medium
+ Caps (size incomplete)
hand-set: faces or sizes incomplete
Linotype: 9, 10, 12 pt
Didone, from Linotype
Didot-Antiqua: roman + italic + medium
+ Caps
hand-set: faces + sizes complete: to 48 / to 72 pt
Linotype: complete: r + i + m: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 pt
Didone, from Typoart Dresden
Garamond-Antiqua: roman + italic + medium
+ Caps + Mediaevale numerals
hand-set: faces + sizes complete: to 48 / to 72 pt
Linotype: complete: r + i: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 (+ 14, 18) pt
Geralde Oldstyle (Mediaeval), from Typoart Dresden
Palatino: roman + italic
+ Caps (size incomplete)
hand-set: faces or sizes incomplete
Linotype: 8, 10, 12 pt
Geralde Oldstyle (Mediaeval), from Linotype
Super-Grotesk
hand-set family complete: regular, italic, medium, bold,
condensed reg, condensed medium, con-bold ...
type sizes complete: to 48 / to 96 pt
Linotype: complete: r + i + med: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 pt
Sans-Serif Geometric, from Typoart Dresden
Typefaces lead metal only for hand-set
Behrens, Bernhard, Block, Eckmann, Favorit, Fleischmann, Koch, Liberta, Manutius, Neutra, Cyrillic Romanisch, Thannhaeuser, Tiemann-Mediäval &c &c
Typefaces only for Linotype-set hot-metal from matrix
(size in letterpress Didot-pt)
Aldus: roman + italic: 8, 9, 10, 12
Akzidenz-Grotesque: regular + medium: 8, 10, 12
Baskerville: 9, 10, 12
Bodoni-Book: roman + book italic: 8, 9, 10
Didot: roman + italic + medium: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12
Folio: regular + 3/4-bold: 12
Futura-Book: regular + medium: 8,10,12
Garamond: roman + italic: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 (+ 14, 18)
Grotesque + Egyptienne: medium: 12
Helvetica: regular + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
Helvetica Inserat: bold condensed + bold cond. italic: 12
Leichte Helvetica: light + light italic: 10, 12, 14
Industrie-Antiqua: roman bold + bold italic: 14, 16, 18
Janson: roman + italic: 8, 9, 10
Leipziger Antiqua: roman + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Liberta: roman + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Magna german: roman + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Magna cyrillic: roman + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Memphis: roman + medium: 12
Monospaced: regular: 10, 12
Neuzeit + Memphis: condensed bold: 12, 14, 16
Neuzeit: regular + bold: 14 (SlL-A)
Optima: regular + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Palatino: 8, 10, 12
Primus: roman + italic + medium: 8, 10, 12
Sabon: roman + italic: 8, 10, 12
Super Grotesk: regular + italic + medium: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12
Times Roman: rom + it + med: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18
Trajanus: roman + italic: 8, 9
Trump Mediäval: roman + italic: 8, 10, 12
Univers: regular + medium: 10
Walbaum: roman + italic: 8, 10
Fractur / German type faces for Linotype-set
(size in letterpress Didot-pt)
Alt-Schwabacher: 6, 8, 10, 12
Amts-Fraktur: regular + medium: 6, 8, 9
Humboldt-Fraktur: regular + medium: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12
Koch-Fraktur: regular + medium: 8, 9, 10, 12
Krause-Fraktur: regular + medium: 8, 10
Mainzer Fraktur: regular + medium: 6, 9
Moderne Fraktur: regular + medium: 8, 10
Unger-Fraktur: regular + medium: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12
Wallau-Fraktur: 6, 8, 10, 12
Zentenar-Bookfractur: regular + medium: 6, 9, 10, 12
Extended Kanzlei: 12
Foreign languages with Linotype-set
many European special accents, Cyrillic script
Letterpress Typeface Classification
Serif Typefaces – Round Letterforms
Venetian Oldstyle (Litterae Venetae):
Trajanus
Geralde Oldstyle (Mediaeval, Aldine, French Revival):
Aldus, Garamond, Palatino, Sabon, Trump Mediaeval,
Tiemann-Mediäval
Transitional (Baroque Old Style, Praevictorial):
Baskerville, Industrie-Antiqua, Janson, Leipziger Antiqua, Times Roman
Didone (Modern Roman, Classicist, Empire):
Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum
Slab Serif Typefaces (Egyptian, Strong-serifed):
Memphis, Monospaced, Neutra, Manutius
Sans Serif Faces (Linear Grotesque, Lineales):
Neo-Grotesque:
AG, Folio, Helvetica, Univers
Geometric:
Futura, Neuzeit, Super Grotesk
Humanist:
Frutiger, Optima
Fraktur Forms (German Types, Broken Scripts):
Textualis (Gothic):
Rotunda: Wallau
Schwabacher:
Fractur, Fracture (Kurrent):
Fraktur variants (Bastarda): Extended Kanzlei
Antiqua variants (Varia fonts, Free Antiqua):
Liberta, Magna, Primus etc. etc.
Designer Fonts:
Behrens, Bernhard, Block, Eckmann, Favorit, Fleischmann, Koch, Manutius, Thannhaeuser
Graphic (Manual Typefaces):
Bastarda (Hybride):
Decorative headlines:
Script headlines (Calligraphic & Brush Typefaces):
Symbol typefaces (Applications):
Ornamental, Monograms, Fantasy etc.
Non-Latins (Foreign language fonts):
Many common special European accents present, in some faces and sizes and Cyrillic Script.
Miscellaneous
Symbols & Ornaments:
Borders, Ornaments, Rosettes, Vignettes, Typo Singales
of different styles: uncounted old, strange and curious occasional vignettes (Accidenz clichés and old wood engravings); are the exceptionally rich typographical accessory and invite you to discover and playful handling.
Specimes
The typefaces specimes may be heading in the workshop below.
Copies of the specimes and proofs of the types, including various types of paper, please contact the award of the contract!
Despite my interest I ask for forgiveness for my very bad English!
Postscriptum
"... Letterpress printing has distinct qualities: lead type is intractable and cannot be shrunk or extended or twisted at the command of the computer's mouse. Lead type must be taken for what it is. Lead and wooden letters strike their own kind of impression into the paper. Letterpress can transfer a thicker film of ink than the offset printers' blankets and shows minute irregularities of ink-spread, which gives the work of the hand press, in particular, its own character ..."
(Colin Banks)
"... The eye immediately takes in the craftsman’s skill inherent in the composition. One can almost smell the printers ink ... Ephemeral printing has a longer history than book printing and by its unselfconsciousness often provides a truer picture of the time ..."
(J. Lewis)
"... Types printed into paper with the power of a letterpress, have their own, their 'typical' visual expression. In addition metal types were engraved each size individually. This gives the letters harmony and well balanced proportions. Even later the whole range of sizes was divided in several drawing groups, which increases legibility. Never will 'hightech' production surpass the charm of a book printed letterpress ..."
(E. Schumacher-Gebler)
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