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BillRESSL.us Bill Ressl … Box 504, Brookfield, Illinois USA … BillRessl@yahoo.com |
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The 1980s Gallery of Offset and Linoleum Block Art by Bill Ressl Bill Ressl Cachets: 1977 - 1982 Ressl Block Cachets: 1981 - 1982 One could say Bill has printers ink in his blood. From the time he was born his parents had print shops and he was raised around offset presses, cameras, plate makers, paper, and ink. His earliest memories are collating large product manuals with his parents and brothers. In 1977 a print shop customer and first day cover/stamp collector Earl Wellman from Brookfield, Illinois encouraged Bill to design his first cachet. With the help of his father, who always saw printing as an art, Bill created his first cachet (first day cover) and soon began producing Bill Ressl Cachets. Bill soon learned, in an age before computers, to run the Multilith 1250 single color offset press and was involved in all aspects of creating the cachets - from researching and drawing the artwork, making negatives, stripping and burning plates, as well as often mixing ink colors and printing his Bill Ressl Cachets. As college studies required more time Bill stopped producing his cachets. Below is the gallery of over 100 cachets he produced (usually in quantities of 50 to 200) on his trusty little brown offset press and 6 block print cachets (very limited production) he experimented with in college. Today Bill’s old cachets can be found periodically on eBay and other websites. |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1981 |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1982 |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1980 |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1979 |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1978 |
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Offset Art: Bill Ressl Cachets 1977 |
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Linoleum Block Art: Ressl Block Cachets 1981 - 1982 |