昨日は、私たちの活版の先生Ｍご夫妻のところで５回目の活版勉強会。
まずは、定年退職挨拶状はがき。
初心者の私だと活字を探すのに時間がかかってしまうので、すでにＭ奥様が活字をセットして刷れる状態までご用意して下さいました。デルマックスという活版印刷機で印刷することになり、そのお手伝いをさせていただきました。
Yesterday, I had my 5th letterpress class at my instructor Mr. and Mrs. M's shop.
First, we began to print greeting cards for a retirement announcement order they got. The typesetting for the cards was already completed by Mrs. M and was ready to go to print. They taught me how to use their DELMAX printer—it is always a cool experience and one of my favorite parts of this class!
(pictured below is type set by Mrs M. It's really amazing.)
そして、その後は私の活字の文字詰めの練習です。前回は、２度にわたり私と夫の名刺を活字で組んで刷りました。そして今回は、もっと私が活字になれるようＭ奥様から課題をいただきました。慣れない活字に悪戦苦闘、結局すべて見つけるのに時間がかかってしまい、印刷は次回へ。
After that, Mrs. M gave me an assignment to make her business cards with Japanese type. It took a really long time to find all characters of her name and address from the tons of Japanese type in the type cases. After one and a half hours, I finally completed her business card typesetting and will print it with their DELMAX the next workshop.
(Pictured below is my assignment. It is tiny, but it takes forever to set type for beginners!)
