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I LANSTON TYPE COMPANY I GERALD GIAMPA I
¶ EVERYONE NEEDS an ever forgiving grandmother. Giampa was the black sheep of his family. Their opinion of him has never changed. However, his Grandmother encouraged him in the arts, put up with him in his early teens and even bought him a traditional blue steamer trunk when he was running away to sea.
She is the person responsible for introducing Giampa to various printing suppliers, setting up accounts. She also had a banking background.
On his fourth birthday she gifted Giampa with a John Bull rubber stamp pad set. He remembers the day very well.
Originally Giampa's first press, George Kuthan's old Honeysuckle Press, was destined for her basement but sicker minds prevailed and it ended up in his parents' basement.
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¶ NICK SCHWABE advised that Giampa look for a hand-fed platen press. Giampa found one through Wil Hudson who went on to mentor him. The press came from George Kuthan of the Honeysuckle Press. Nick was a swiss born commercial printer, Wil Hudson an American immigrant fine printer (very fine) and George Kuthan was a Czeckoslovakian Canadian artist.