[EKStationers] Printing presses

[Scotty Marshall]

I love that someone actually knows what I am talking about....only in the 
SCA..

At an rate,

Many thanks for the links and info. I've used a "Rat tail" press in the pass 
including the hand inking, and as such can relate to what you are saying. I 
am not sure that the inking process is anywhere as tedious as type setting, 
mais chaqun son gout. That there is a class at Pennsic this year and that 
finances are seeming as though they will prevent my participation. As for 
the Platen press, I actually have a small 3 1/2 x 5 hand lever powered, and 
was inches from picking up a gargantuan 18x24 model from a news paper, which 
had the option of steam/ belt hook up, or foot treadle operation. Finding 
rollers for the old girl was the deal killer, but now I find there is a guy 
in Scarborough (near Toronto) who refurbishes rolls, and were I determined 
again, polytech might have a product for recasting the rolls. The other 
trouble was finding a good printing ink for non-hydrated presses. I started 
trying to make my own version, but had crappy luck.

Ohh, there's a good question, any clues on period printing ink? Chemical 
analisys from period tomes? Am I geeking out again?

Time to go downstairs and watch football, eat meat, and prove how normal I'm 
not.....


Varenko/Scotty


>From: Iheronimus Brückner <iheronimus at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: East Kingdom Stationers Guild 
><ekstationers at lists.gallowglass.org>
>To: East Kingdom Stationers Guild <ekstationers at lists.gallowglass.org>
>Subject: Re: [EKStationers] Printing presses Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 
>14:00:17 -0400
>
>Greetings,
>
>On May 29, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Scotty Marshall wrote:
>
>>Just a querie, Has anyone here actually built a printing press,
>
>I once modified an iron "standing press" to serve as a printing press.
>Getting an even impression was not easy, since my pressure was somewhat
>limited by an iffy brass bearing atop the press. Was able to print a  few 
>scrolls
>with it before deciding it was of more use to me as a standing press...
>
>A good web site for printing on the hand press:
>
><http://www.letterspace.com/handpress/index.html>
>
>>cast moveable type, or know offhanded the good source documents for  these 
>>activities?
>
>Reproduction hand molds for casting lead type <http:// 
>www.rsnrecreations.com/>
>are being made by Stan Nelson, former curator of Printing at the  
>Smithsonian.
>
>If all goes well, Lord Padraig Muadhan (Aethelmearc) expects to be  
>teaching hand
>casting at Pennsic this year, as well as some classes on period type  and 
>printing.
>Seek him out.
>
>>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.
>
>Maybe, but it beats under-thinking.
>
>8)
>
>Platen presses are typically powered presses with automatic inking  for 
>making
>multiple copies. A hand press requires hand inking, which is not as  easy 
>as it
>sounds.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>M. Iheronimus
>
>
>
>
>
>>Varenko/Scotty
>>
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