Mechanicsburg, PA is a lovely small town with conveniences like free parking as well as a thriving retail, art, and restaurant scene—and even establishments for taking high tea or enjoying a therapeutic herbal foot bath! Fathom will be located right on East Main Street: a Victorian home for the family and a separate, spacious building for Fathom in the back.

The new office will have ample space for Fathom’s design activities as well as room for our expanded offerings in Photography and Letterpress Printing. The house will also include a greatly improved space for Nelly’s art studio.

In July, Fathom will be the proud owner of a letterpress from the 1800s known as an Old Reliable. (As the press is still working after nearly 125 years of service, “Old Reliable” seems a prophetic name!) This 1,000-pound machine is a big step up from our wooden hand-press and opens options: we can produce jobs in-house or send jobs out to the 1950s Windmill press, depending on complexity and work volume—all the while creating printing plates in-house. The result: the doors are blown wide open in terms of the kinds of letterpress-printed materials we can produce for our clients.

Of course, we also continue to use modern printing methods, whatever it takes to produce great work.