Gerald Stephen Giampa (March 4, 1950 – June 24, 2009) was a printer, typographer, and author. He grew up in British Columbia where he developed an interest in printing books came from his grandfather. Giampa studied letterpress printing and typography under Wil Hudson and Nick Schwabe in Vancouver. From 1975 to 1981 Giampa's Cobblestone Press in Vancouver published not only jobbing printing but also works by Ezra Pound, Robin Blaser and George Bowering among others. Later, Giampa expanded his company, renaming it the Northland Letterpress Company. In 1983 he bought the US Lanston Monotype Machine Company of Philadelphia from M & H typefounders in San Francisco. He acquired much of Frederic Goudy’s materials with the Lanston Monotype Company’s stock. He and Jim Rimmer digitized the fonts and, from 1988 to 2004, ran the foundry Lanston Type Company. In 1994 Giampa moved to Prince Edward Island, but a few years later his operation was severely damaged in a flood. The name of his firm, together with its fonts, were bought in 2004 by the digital foundry P22, of Buffalo, NY. Giampa designed the Bodoni 26 font, which was named among the top 100 Types in a survey conducted by the Type Directors Club. Gerald Giampa died in Vancouver B.C..