Private Presses - Utility Press

The Press

Utility Press
{previously the The Hand Press and the The Private Hand Press }

Proprietor

John Setek

Location

Queensland, Australia.
John Setek's website as at 15 November 2005 was:
http://monotype.bigpondhosting.com/photos.htm

History

A brief history of John Setek and his various presses and casting machines is printed in the October 2005 edition of the AHP Newsletter.

Equipment

Some of the press' equipment is mentioned in articles in the October 2005 edition of the AHP Newsletter.

Publications

John has produced some hundreds of items created by letterpresss or offset so this will always be a work in progress. The mass of letterpress items have included:

A Printer's Progress a periodical in editions of unknown copies. Issue 13 has the date August 1989
Small Woodblock Prints May 2001, edition of 120.
MONO-type a periodical in editions of between 30 and 50 copies. Issue 14 has the date November 2002 and Utility Press item no. 59
A Hobby Printer's Calendar 2003 No date. An edition of 50 copies. Utility Press item no. 60

Other items include small single leaf broadsheets, bookplates and labels.