NA Graphics

LETTERPRESS SUPPLES

Most items are currently in stock. We can handle most requests and usually ship within 24 hours.

We carry more than 1,000 items for all your printing needs.

This year has been a challenge for us. Fritz, the owner, has been in hospitals and rehab including the Veterans Affairs hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. due to an accident here at NA Graphics since July 1st. The first day of November has been the first day at work for Fritz and it has been greeted with a mountain of unfilled orders. My assistant, Judy, has been dealing with the loss of her husband in October with the attendant problems with his death.
And exciting news. At last a new gauge pin from John Henry, the maker of the Henry Gauge Pin. Using as his model a gauge pin made first in the 1890's, these come 3 to a set and can be used on all platen presses. We now have stock and can ship new gauge pins. And we are awaiting delivery of the first gage pins that will duplicate the Korts in every detail.

We use Priority US Mail to ship orders where ever possible because it it is faster and usually far less expensive than UPS. Do not let the price for UPS on our order form scare you off as we use our judgement on each order.

There is a new item that we have to contend with. It's called inflation, and rising prices mainly on certain materials are often crazy. The most recent one is stainless steel. Simple things like line gauges and die cutting jackets have sky rocketing price increases. So as stocks of older material are used up, the new replacement stock is much more expensive. Unfortunately, we have to pass on these costs. The other thing is back ordered items that go on for months hoping that they will be available. Case in point is the 4 inch Lamson ink knife which we finally have in stock after an eight month wait.

We have received our new order of Super Soap and it is now on the web site. Our introduction to this product was at the ATF conference held at Sunnyvale, California when we made a field trip to M&H Type in San Francisco and we were given samples. That was back in 1998.

We had some good news about Pressboard. Our mill order was made and it was picked up from the mill in Vermont last July. We began filling back orders by the following Monday, June 26. But the bad news is that the mill has increased its minimum order to 40,000 pounds. That's an awful lot of paper. The mill, formerly owned by Neenah Paper, started us off with pressboard by the 125 sheet carton, then by the 1000 pound skid, and now what amounts to a boxcar load minimum order. We will see what happens.

We operate out of a real store front, with regular hours, pay taxes, nothing under the table, have employees, and all that goes with a business. Some of our competitors in the letterpress field operate from their homes perhaps using a spare bedroom or the garage. Our prices are up front, on our website for all to see.





The UPS guy stops by daily and so does the FedEx person, and we see the occasional walker and car drive past. Some of our customers are taking on projects, especially their Vandercooks, now that they have time to work on them. We maintain a safe workplace and rarely have contact with outside people. The locals maintain their distance from the tourists to a large extent. Our construction business has remained viable with work on rebuilding a historic narrow gauge caboose, a high-end hotel, and for our historical society.