We work with five presses - all platens. One of these is an old style Chandler and Price 8x12". Old Styles have curved spokes on the flywheel and lack brakes. They are easy to feed and pedal. Ours is 1904 vintage and still going strong. Nicely elegant but really somewhat primitive for some classes of work. I've always had a picture in my mind of a ballet dancer! Perfect balance. Sometimes I have brought a platen just off impression and pealed a sheet of Kozo Japanese paper from the block. Perfect balance and poise hand, foot, and brain. New styles (ours is 1934), lack the charm of the earlier presses but are modernist manufacturing at best, strong and functional. Straight spokes and no decorative casting. They are strong.
Disk inking can be a bit defeating when you want selective inking and there is no easy way of adjusting the forme rollers. A light touch for shallow etched photopolymer plates is required and this can be achieved by packing the bed rails where the roller trucks travel. Now though, I found a source of Morgan Expanding Trucks, an old invention of expanding trucks that allow very precise settings.
They change the dimension of the roller trucks by using a simple spanner. Heidelberg Windmills of course always featured accurate roller settings and we normally put our photopolymer plates on that press. Now though we can enjoy printing them on our Oldstyle C&P. Thanks to N.A.Graphics of Colorado USA. Its well worth looking for their well stocked web site. I have uploaded an illustration of an Oldstyle C&P from the original sales catalog and a recent picture of our 10x15 New Style C&P.
Disk inking can be a bit defeating when you want selective inking and there is no easy way of adjusting the forme rollers. A light touch for shallow etched photopolymer plates is required and this can be achieved by packing the bed rails where the roller trucks travel. Now though, I found a source of Morgan Expanding Trucks, an old invention of expanding trucks that allow very precise settings.
They change the dimension of the roller trucks by using a simple spanner. Heidelberg Windmills of course always featured accurate roller settings and we normally put our photopolymer plates on that press. Now though we can enjoy printing them on our Oldstyle C&P. Thanks to N.A.Graphics of Colorado USA. Its well worth looking for their well stocked web site. I have uploaded an illustration of an Oldstyle C&P from the original sales catalog and a recent picture of our 10x15 New Style C&P.
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I love your printing Den.
The linocut just printed in the above photo was inspired by a Screen Printing friend Mary.
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