Background
The Sherwood Press is a 84 year old letterpress print shop sitting on a bluff overlooking Capitol Lake in Olympia, Washington, amid a towering stand of Douglas fir and big leaf maple trees. The press was established and run for 63 years by Jocelyn Dohm, a wonderful woman who passed away in 2003. To learn more about her, please read the history page. I was her “printer’s devil”, assistant, and protegé for fourteen years. After eight years affiliated with the press, I decided to offer myself as the successor to Jocelyn, and she accepted. I inherited the business in 2003.
For the past twenty years, I have worked as Jocelyn did: as a one-woman business. However, my husband Terry Bunce has spent a lot of his free time learning how to maintain and repair our presses and make other improvements to our two press rooms.
Buildings & Equipment
The press consists of the original 1940, 420 sq. ft. english revival building, the 200 sq. ft. Dohm-Sayre Bindery (2008), the Blackhawk Shed (storage for type cabinets), and the new Sherwood Annex which is our production space. We have four Heidelberg 10 x 15 T-Platen (“Windmill”) presses, a 1960 Heidelberg KS 15 x 20.5 cylinder letterpress, a 1911 10 x 15 Chandler & Price New Series platen press with treadle, a Reynolds Print-a-sign from the 1960s, a Gordon Old Style 8 x 12, and a couple of small tabletop presses as well. We have a 30.5″ Challenge Series C hydraulic paper cutter with Microcut, a 19 3/8″ Challenge tabletop paper cutter, a nice Kutrimmer board shear, and a variety of bindery tools. We have fourteen cabinets of metal type, some of which is quite rare. We also have both A4 and A2 photopolymer platemakers that enable us to print computer-designed artwork and typography on the letterpresses.
Our Specialties
The Sherwood Press specializes in branding, product labeling, custom business cards, personal and business stationery, social announcements, and occasionally offers broadside editions, greeting cards, notebooks, posters or other items.
Capabilities
If you would like to inquire about specific capabilities of our press, please drop us a line. We are adding equipment and gaining expertise more or less constantly.
Thanks for visiting!
Jami Heinricher, Owner
360-357-3855
hello@thesherwoodpress.com
The Sherwood Press • 811 5th Avenue SW • Olympia, WA 98502
The Sherwood Press: letterpress & design on Olympia's West Side since 1940 