[EKStationers] Printing presses

[Scotty Marshall]

Just a querie,
Has anyone here actually built a printing press, cast moveable type, or know 
offhanded the good source documents for these activities? I remember when I 
helped out at the mackenzie heritage printery that they had a reproduction 
Gutenburg press, And as a stop gap I have about 20 different types of 
various descriptions and sizes in my collection. I assume that some of the 
early printed volume reprints available from publishers like Taschen would 
be a good source for examples of period Font. With that though, I don't know 
if the type cross sections and keying meathods used in a turn of the century 
Platen presses would be at all similar to the period approach. Of course 
it's also possible that I am overthinking.



Varenko/Scotty

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