Hallo, I have some letterpress printing blocks that were used by an American record pressing plant to print the labels. The blocks were made of wood with the...
[Please excuse cross-posting] Henry Morris to deliver J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture Princeton University, 101 McCormick Hall, Princeton, NJ October 25,...
Abby Uhteg and I have been trying to set up the website for her new College and University Letterpress Printers Association, and with the suggestion of Arie...
Thanks everyone for all your great advice about the Vandercook on eBay. I really appreciate it. I'm waiting to hear from the people in Ohio about the questions...
Thanks for the thoughtful replies to my questions about damping. I assume the reason why Rummonds and Allen both reccomend interleaving evenly with (1) damp...
Greetings to the list, I am new to this list, and relatively new to printing. I'm taking the letterpress class at Otis right now from Gerald. I'm searching for...
This afternoon we completely rewired the ballast board of my A&V Orbital VIII platemaking machine, replacing the CosmoTronic 20/40 ballasts with WorkHorse 5s,...
Hello. I had a few questions I'm hoping someone can answer. I have a Vandercook SP-15 that I recently purchased and am getting ready to use for the first time....
Hello all, I am looking for any advice for someone starting out in the Letterpress printing business. I am running a Heidelberg Windmill using photopolymer...
Several have suggested oiling the rails, and I've seen others do the same. But that isn't the best practice. Any bearing wheel is meant to turn, and if you oil...
My first exposure to the letterpress was back in 1972 when I was just out of high school and my first job in the real world was at a local print shop. I...
I am wondering if any of you have experience with using Crane's new letterpress offering"Lettra"? I used it recently on a job and had a few problems. I usually...
I had a selection of photographs from the Imprimeries Clandestines issue of Le Point, 1945, in the photo section here for a while a long while back and when I...
this has been on my mind... i removed the cylinder carriage off the #4. but i didn't have the foresight of marking anything. how difficult will it to put it...
Please excuse cross-posting. I'm posting this notice not because I'm the moderator of this discussion, but because this event has some interesting people...
Admittedly these are "newbie" questions, hope you all don't mind: 1. What does one use to thicken really soupy rubber based ink? 2. What are some ideal less...
i dropped off the feed table to a sheet metal guy to remake. $225-$250. apparently banging it flat wasn't an option. what is the original feed table material?...
i recently acquired a Vandercook 4 that's been sitting out in the desert for over a decade. it's rusted pretty bad. i've applied several coats of Naval Jelly,...
lots of progress on the press this weekend... after removing the bumpers at the end, i guided the whole carriage off. i hope it'll go back on as easy as it...
Brandon, if you have not figured it out yet, please scan the schematic and email it to me and I will look at it and see if I can suggest where to look. I have...
Hi folks- I'm about to attempt some novice electronic voodoo on my platemaker and wanted to get advice before I got into it. When the machine is turned on...
Anyone know who was on the program today? They showed how to make a photopolymer plate and print from it. Good stuff, nice to see it bringing attention to...
This forthcoming title has come to my attention. Hartz was not only a gifted type designer but a gifted typographer as well. They do not always equate. One of...
List, I am preparing to purchase a base for photopolymer plate printing from Boxcar Press. It's immediate function will be for a wee 5x8. It occurred to me...
The Fine Press Book Association is extending our call for printed ephemera for the North American issue of Parenthesis 13. The new submission date is November...
Several days ago I noticed a strange noise that occurrs irregularly during operation, both while printing and not printing. As best as I can describe it, it...
Hello fellow purveyors of things beautifully printed and finely bound, Once again pardon my shameless promotion of Deep Wood Press but the website has been...
30 million impressions on a Vandercook? Assuming you could crank out 1000/day without your arm falling off, it would take 30,000 days to do them or approx. 82...
