Each year since 2012, the printing faction of the Chesapeake Chapter has produced a calendar using various printing techniques, mostly centered around letterpress. These efforts often use the opportunity to experiment with new techniques & new layouts of both printing & typography. The calendars are sold with the funds supporting up to 10 student memberships for Denker Fellows each year and support for monthly speakers, trips & other projects.

The online price is $25, which includes shipping. These make fantastic presents and support an important cause. A link to order will be available soon.

We update each month as we receive them. Our deadline for the finished calendar is September 16, the date of THE .918 CLUB’s annual printers fair in Lancaster, PA. We’ll have a table. Join us. Buy a calendar.

        Cover 2024
Chris Manson | Crooked Crow Press | Rockville, MD 
Handset metal type in runs

        January 2024
Don Starr | Glyph Pressroom | Havre de Grace, MD
Handset metal type & watercolor

        February 2024
Ken Kulakowsky | The .918 Club | Lancaster, PA
3 runs on a 12 x 18 C&P

        March 2024
Randy Newcomer | Conestoga Press | Ephrata, PA 
Copperplate with handset metal type in 2 runs

        April 2024
Ian Edelson | Tradecraft Press | Washington, DC
Photopolymer and metal type in 2 runs

        May 2024
Casey Smith | Own Goal Press | Wilmington, DE
Handset metal and wood type in 2 runs

        June 2024
James Quigley | Model Citizen Press | Vermillion, South Dakota
Photopolymer plates in 2 runs

        July 2024
Jill Cypher | Lead Graffiti | Newark, DE
Text in handset metal type printed silver, firefly is halftoned drawing in photopolymer printed black, firefly lights are hand-deawn drawings in photopolymer with gold dust added

         August 2024
Lauren Emeritz | Abstract Orange | Washington, DC
Handset wood & metal type in 2 runs

         September 2024
Tatiana Shukhin | Windhorse Press | Takoma Park, MD
Linocut and metal type in 4 runs

         October 2024
Jim Wilder | Wild Apple Press | Bethesda, MD
Woodcut & handset metal type in 2 runs

         November 2024
Ray Nichols | Lead Graffiti | Newark, DE
Photopolymer in 2 colors with hand-stamping reduction in 2 runs

         December 2024
Carol Maurer | The Stitched Press | Hockessin, DE
Handset metal type in 3 runs (ink combed from type, type, blind debased)

        Colophon 2024
George Barnum | Leaden Army Press | Austinberg, OH
Copperplate & handset metal type in 1 run