Alchemists revealing secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, detail of watercolor in The Ripley Scroll, England, ca. 1700. (Getty Research Institute, 950053)

4:30-5:30 pm  saturday, october 8

David Brafman, Rhiannon Knol, & Marcia Reed: The Art of Alchemy

Carollee Campbell, proprietor of the Ninja Press, introduced the three plenary panelists from the Getty Research Institute. They discussed the exhibition of the Art of Alchemy, which APHA members would be fortunate enough to preview the following day.  [Read more]

Grendl Löfkvist operating the Presstek 34 DI-X at Inkworks Press. Photo by Scott Braley.

Members of APHA and the Friends of Dard Hunter, will soon receive by mail, the program for the upcoming conference in San Francisco. It was printed on a Presstek 34 DI-X four-color waterless offset press at Inkworks Press. On this high-tech machine, plates are imaged directly on press using lasers, bypassing film entirely. The press can produce up to 300 lpi and stochastic screening in perfect register. [Read more]