This is lovely article (albeit in a sad way). I worked in the print industry for many years; offset-litho than letter press but I learnt how to set leaded type at college and occasionally we out-sourced some work to letter-press printers as there are just some jobs that are better suited to the mechanics of letterpress than the rather aggressive processes of offset litho - putting the paper between many rollers, custom wedding invitations are a good example of when we would use letter press.
There is just something wonderful, to me anyway, about the entire process of printing, letter-press more so.
I see his set up also included a folding machine - we used to have to do a lot of hand-folding for some more delicate or low-run jobs that were not worth the time taken to setting up our folding machine to work on.
I am glad people like Dean Combs exist. May he keep doing what he does for as long as he can and the good folk of Saguache realise what a gem they have here.