Scholarly building: a zine: 'Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press'

I just published a 22-page zine: “Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press”. It’s a letterpress maintenance tutorial on changing tympan and packing material on Vandercook cylinder floor presses like the SP-15, Universal, 3, and 4. #8 in my Letterpress for All! series of zine tutorials and advice aimed at making letterpress more accessible (including financially and physically) for more people. 1-4 are done but pending journal issue publication (Summer 2026?); 5-7 are drafted.

For more info or to read, download, print the zine (all free!), visit ZineBakery.com/homemade/tympanchange.