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Ink & Paper

2012 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Downtown Los Angeles once had 42 letterpress and paper companies; this film finds the two left standing. A paper dealer and a press printer, both working with equipment and techniques centuries old, walk through the daily craft of running a business built on materials most of the industry abandoned decades ago. The camera lingers on the machinery itself, the type cases, the paper stock, the physical work of setting and printing by hand, while the two men talk about what it takes to keep a trade like this alive when the customer base and the competition have both disappeared. Their pride in the work comes through in the details they choose to point out, the grain of a sheet, the weight of a press, the history behind a supplier relationship that outlasted forty other companies. It is a small, specific portrait of a vanishing corner of the printing world, told entirely through the people still doing the work.