The Porcupine's Quill
Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
of Erin Village, Wellington County
Acknowledgements
The Porcupine's Quill is an independent Canadian publisher which operates with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. The generous support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit (OBPTC) and the OMDC Book Fund, as well as the support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Programme (BPIDP), is also gratefully acknowledged.
Gordon Platt of the Canada Council for the Arts meets poet P. K. Page (seated at left) at the launch of The Hidden Room at the Eden Mills Writer's Festival, 1997. (photo: Tim Inkster)
Lorraine Filyer (left) of the Ontario Arts Council with Tim Inkster at the launch of Dancer, Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, November 1996. (photo: John Metcalf)
The Porcupine’s Quill is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.
To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) is also gratefully acknowledged.
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