Comments on: C&P Letterpress: 2 color job

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:03:34 +0000

Donald: was it the rollers smearing the ink in that way, or the squeeze of the chase on heavy paper?

By: Donald Tyler

Donald Tyler — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:36:26 +0000

Ok let me me make the low-brow comment. That video got me all hot!

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:53:38 +0000

Daryl: "Litho has no memory" (together with the rest of your comment) is going to remain in my memory for a good long time.

By: Andrew Simone

Andrew Simone — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:44:07 +0000

Anytime. I forgot about all of it (i.e., I never knew) since everything I know about letterpress I learned here on clusterflock.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:33:22 +0000

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.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:08 +0000

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.