Wow, this brings back memories of running a Miehle sheet-fed press for years. I love the bite of the lead type, the literal impression it makes on heavy paper. Litho has no memory–it just mixes alchohol and water and dreams a blind dream at a high rate of speed.
thank you, Andrew. that’s beautiful. I forgot all about the plastic plates you can make that allow you to press an entire page without setting the type individually. I’m going to have to look back into that.
Wow, this brings back memories of running a Miehle sheet-fed press for years. I love the bite of the lead type, the literal impression it makes on heavy paper. Litho has no memory–it just mixes alchohol and water and dreams a blind dream at a high rate of speed.
thank you, Andrew. that’s beautiful. I forgot all about the plastic plates you can make that allow you to press an entire page without setting the type individually. I’m going to have to look back into that.
Anytime. I forgot about all of it (i.e., I never knew) since everything I know about letterpress I learned here on clusterflock.
Daryl: “Litho has no memory” (together with the rest of your comment) is going to remain in my memory for a good long time.
Ok let me me make the low-brow comment. That video got me all hot!
Donald: was it the rollers smearing the ink in that way, or the squeeze of the chase on heavy paper?