- Entrance

The printshop and the collection are based in Valdocco area in Turin - north west Italy - same home town of Nebiolo and Saroglia: what a legacy...

- Studio

The studio is specialized in traditional typesetting and we operate as “creative makers”: a contemporary reunion of art and craft where mind and hands can’t work apart in a slow, high-quality and meticulous production process.

- Studio

The collection also includes several books on typography and printing: foundry types catalogues, type specimens, technical magazines and printing, composition and bookbinding manuals.

- Gallery

at offers integrated service of graphic design and letterpress printing with movable types and photopolymer plates, over a wide range of products (books, posters, wedding suites, business cards, etc.) and collaborates with artists and designers worldwide.

- Gallery

Sometimes at organizes workshops with students and professionals. We believe that the knowledge and the love for letterpress need to be spread as much as possible! 

- Windmill

Among others, the studio hosts the famous and very popular Heidelberg Windmill, a super fast clamshell platen press. The name derives from the paper automatic-feed system movement. As for all platens, the paper is pressed against the flat, operating plane to plane.

- Windmill

The collection of lead movable types includes about 1500 drawers of different sizes, styles, periods and origins.

- Proof-presses

In the lab there are cylinder proof-presses from Germany and USA. Graphic elements are on a flatbed and the paper runs over a pressure cylinder. In the past, these machines were used just for proofing, but today they are the perfect choice for projects with a low number of copies.

- Proof-presses

The collection of movable types includes fonts from famous foundries including Nebiolo, Reggiani, Haas, Monotype and Schelter&Giesecke.

- Platens

The most important bequest that enriches the collection of movable lead types belonged to the historic Tipografia Marchisio, which has been a reference point in Turin for the high-quality printed materials over decades.

- Platens

Our 2 German platen presses are in the middle of the printshop and they both operate with a sliding system. They have nothing to envy to each other… despite almost 70 years of difference!

- Cylinder

The collection of fonts also includes several drawers of medium-large size wooden types, traditionally used for printing posters (obviously wood was used instead of lead after certain type size for weight reason).

- Cylinder

Our biggest and fastest printing machine (up to 4000 copies/hour and 50x70cm printing area) is an Heidelberg flat-bed cylinder produced in the 50s: it represents the typographic engineering precision peak of last century.