This current collaborative research is most relevant to the printmaking/bookarts, typography and publication papers currently taught in the Bachelor of Computer Graphic Design and Quay School of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and BDA associated programmes. The collaboration is with my friend and colleague Marty Vreede, head of the Quay School of the Arts Print Room. To our knowledge there is no current research work of this kind in New Zealand on the making of letterpress ty