After his son took an art course with a printed book as one of his projects, Bob Summers devoted the rest of his life to fine printing. He founded the Escutcheon Press in 1986 and subsequently printed selections from the work of a number of Australian writers, including Christopher Brennan and Miles Franklin. Selections from the work of overseas writers included Lawrence Durrell, Rudyard Kipling and William Shakespeare. Summers also printed material on subjects such as history, music, religion, art, private presses and travel. In 2001 he completed How Is a Man: Commonplace Book which displayed the press's variety of printing processes and its range of type faces.
