Who Is:
Dependable Letterpress was started in 2002 by Joel Benson in his basement in San Francisco’s Mission district. In 2004 we graduated to a light-flooded workspace in the former American Can Co. factory, on the Bay side of Potrero Hill.
Joel discovered the satisfaction in putting
ink to paper in 1987 in a book arts class at UC Santa Cruz, and felt
he’d
finally found his calling. An apprenticeship with the Yolla Bolly Press
followed, and later
a job with Julie Holcomb Printers in San Francisco, where he was introduced
to Heidelberg presses and the practice of production printing.
