The Devil's Artisan

DEVIL'S ARTISAN #66, SPRING/SUMMER 2010

A TRIBUTE TO JIM RIMMER

DA 66 (Spring 2010) features A Tribute to Jim Rimmer, who died earlier in the year.

The issue includes Jim & Me by Alex Widen; Memoirs by Jason DeWinetz, Richard Kegler, Brian Maloney, Rod McDonald, Rollin Milroy, Ross Roxburgh, Will Rueter and Andrew Steeves; Jim Rimmer: A Checklist by Eric Swanick, and type specimens reproduced courtesy of P22 Foundry (Buffalo).

The Rogue's Gallery features Jim Rimmer.

The occasional photographs include Kristine Tortora of AmersandAmpersand Print & Design, Richard Kegler of P22 Type Foundry, and printmakers Marta Chusolinska and Megan Speers. All photographs were taken by Don McLeod at Wayzgoose, in Grimsby.

Printed offset on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures. With coloured endleaves, hand-tipped, front and back. Includes an eight-page insert printed in full colour and donated by Stan Bevington at Coach House Press, Toronto.

Keepsake laid in is after a linocut by Jim Rimmer. Printed digital four-colour on an Indigo Press at Ampersand Printing (Guelph). The cover was printed offset by Tim Inkster at the Porcupine's Quill after a design by Andrew Steeves of Gaspereau Press.

The issue is profusely illustrated with photographs by Anna Prior.

The Devil's Artisan is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.

To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.