Hello, I own and operate a Company (Krause Intaglio LLc) in which we have a Prepress Department and scan items on Linotype Scanners (Sapphire, Opal and Topaz), create Color separations with proprietary software and work with a massive Library of digital Fonts to design Books, we make Film and Polymerplate (metal backed and flexible) to suit up to 24x30 Inch in size. We have a Handbindery, from single Items to Limited Editions of Books can be produced in a variety of fine Papers and Covermaterials we source world wide. We can Foilstamp, Deboss / Emboss up to 16 x 20 Inch. The Printmaking Department is equipped with a Floorstanding Cast Iron Etching Press with a 30 x 60 Bedsize, Hotplates, Aquatinte Box and the Tools for Etching, Engraving, Mezzotint etc, we work on Copperplates and wipe Charbonell Inks. Letterpress is presented with an Albion Handpress, Sheet size up to 28x42 inches, 2 Heidelberg Tiegel (10x15), a Heidelberg Cylinder Press (15.3/4 x 22.5). The Shop is rounded up with a Pigment Lab and the Equipment to make ink, Hot metal Type in Ludlow and Monotype (in Preparation).

I have gotten my Education in Europe, have learned and worked with Hartmut Friedrichhaus in Printmaking for Horst Janssen, Otto Rohse, Horst Pichl, Gotthilf Kurz, Traveeld a Lot and worked with Brugalla Senior, Devauchelles, Yvon Bramante, Marcel Duval,

I have a Masterdegree in Typesetting and Letterpress from Switzerland, a Masterdegree in Handbookbinding from Germany, a CAP Reliures soigneuse et bibliophile from France, my DIpl.-Ing. in mechnaical Engineering is my Family Trade, ave a Dr, in Book history and a Dr. in Theology .