Hello all, I am back from my journey to SF and Seattle. In SF I spent a day with Maia Karolina at the Center for the Book and in Seattle I met with Carl...
Depending on the age of the #4, Vandercook changed from brass roller bearing blocks to steel ones, and those require the plastic Nyliners to protect the core...
UPDATE: if no interest is expressed by Monday March 6th, this press will be scrapped. For immediate removal. Press is located at ground level in Somerville,...
Are all machines to be scrapped there ? There are also some parts of a monotype-composition caster to be seen on the pictures.... The press of the same type is...
not all... the caster in the foreground is a 'clapped' pre-WWI Orphan Annie. it is going to scrap as it is not worthy of saving and has been stripped of any...
Of interest is Fine Books & Collections Magazine, which has a monthly article on fine presses and their work. The current issue features Claire Van Vliet and...
Hello, I have a poster project that will require white to be printed on a Kraft colored stock (light brown). I do have some rubber based opaque white ink but...
Check out the posters at interrobangletterpres.com--sounds like they might be similar to what you're going to try--printing white on colored stock--I think. ...
Hello Bill, Thank you for the response. I have tried that site for some other links these past few days but I cannot get my browser to load the pages. M- ... ...
Hello! This being my first post, I was wondering if anyone could give some advice on printing a tint? im printing some tickets, and on the backside of the...
... Ryan, you can use a solid piece of photo-polymere plate, just cut it more than the size you need, no negative needed, just put enough light on it to harden...
"Splotchy"; sounds to me like too much ink! Do you have a micrometer? You should measure your lino block to be evenly .925 high, and that will provide enough...
Ryan My guess, simply based on teaching experience, is that often mounted linoleum is not type high (most students don't realize this—don't know if you do or...
... On a large area to be printed, the pressure = force/aera is lower than when you print just type, because the type represents less area... So here you might...
Ryan, I print from Linoleum, I do a lot of linocuts and also print with them and use type. One thing about covering large areas of surface with ink is it...
my hosts router has been down, and so, my site. it's up now. fact is, van son opaque white is just OK. i'd give my eye-teeth for some better coverage. what...
If anyone knows of an opaque white that can actually cover, besides engravers ink, I'd be psyched We've tried just about every opaque white on the market. The...
Hi all. I'm putting together some figures for a startup biz, and could use some help with some BALLPARK estimates. Assuming a small two-man shop (w/gas heat)...
hello, this may be a dumb question...but im merely a letterpress beginner. i've been sorting through a ton of type and ornaments and i've found a lot of these...
Mike The set that is in the middle look like two-color holly berrys used with holly leave ornaments for Christmas greeting cards. The set on the right, don't...
I don't know Gerald, those look like a bad case of lead warts to me. ... From: PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of...
Hi Mike Never heard of lead warts. Could very well be. Had a bunch of em once upon a time though and the ones I had were Holly berries. At any rate, if you...
Hello Mike, Those dots are part of 2 different 2-color borders. (Or ornaments). DON'T throw them away! Hopefully somewhere in the "ton of stuff" will be the...
Re #3, I have a set of two-color hollyberry ornaments and the dots are much more irregularly spaced. They don't look like these. Are the dots type high? ...
The ATF Blue Book for 1923 shows these on pp. 660/663 as "A Showing of Holiday Borders." If you look at the top showing on p. 660 you will likely see the very...
