Abstract: Universal press to process and/or for the application of small items such as stamping, drilling, die-punching, button-holing, riveting and similar operations, including: a base (19); a "C"-shaped structure (1) fixed to the said base; a hollow, vertical cylindrical body (2), to which the control device (4) is fixed and the support (9) of the moving tool (10), arranged at the end of the upper arm of the structure (1) and carriage (14), or (15) to support the fixed tool holders (12) complete with guides which match the coherent vertical guides (16) of the lower arm.