Photography by Leonard Whistler

VCC Printing Production Certificate Course

In September 1987 I took a 10-month Printing Production certificate course at Vancouver Community College (VCC) in Vancouver, Canada. I finished the course in June 1988.

I took this course because I was interested in printing up a 12-month calendar of my images from the concert photography (Blog post #008) I was doing at the time, and I wanted to learn how offset printing worked.

For the final project the students were required to print a 2-color job on a 1-color offset printing press. Since I was collecting Canadian stubby beer bottles (Blog post #011), I decided to print some beer bottle labels. I designed the labels on an Apple Macintosh Plus computer and printed them on a 25-inch L125C Harris offset printing press.