Last week I was in New York to teach workshops at the “Center for Book Arts”:http://centerforbookarts.org/, and also visited a couple of printshops including Daniel Morris’s “The Arm Letterpress”:http://www.thearmnyc.com/information/letterpress in Brooklyn. Some readers may know that has several Vandercooks including this rather unusual SP15 that has a hand lever mechanism to raise the paper grippers [...]

ADR.1, N° 7927, built 1966. The owner, artist “Thomas H. Cremanns”:http://www.tcart.de, Düsseldorf, Germany is moving his studio and wants to sell the press.

I was printing last night and was wondering what the largest run (number of sheets + number of colors) anyone had run on a Vandercook where you were either hand feeding the paper or hand cranking. How about a few stories of your experiences? If you can please list the sheets / size / colors [...]

Could someone either take a nice close-up digital photo or carefully measure (wrap a piece of paper around it and measure) the circumference of both the form roller (the one that actually touches the type) and the gear that drives it as it moves across the press? The outside diameter of my gear is noticeably [...]

Thanks to Paul’s recent post regarding trip spring replacement, I was able to discern that my SP-15′s trip/print problem is that both springs are broken. I spoke with Fritz today for advice and ordered new ones. I know there was a photo recently posted by John Cristopher showing a carriage off the press with the [...]

Just added a new page of “Vandercook employee photos”:http://vandercookpress.info/vanderblog/employee/photos/. Take a look at a few of the men who built your presses.

This plaque, on a 1919 model “20″:http://vandercookpress.info/years09-27.html#20 (SN 1103, owned by John Horn), begs the question: when did Vandercook & Sons begin manufacturing—or at least assembling—presses in-house? Fritz says that he has not come across any documents in reference to outsourcing manufacturing for this period. However, he does have information on later subcontracted production. An [...]

Dear All I am considering selling my 2 Vandercooks to my employer. (Read: “I needs the cash!”) As I don’t keep up with recent Vandercook sales & prices anymore, I am curious what any of you might think they are worth. The first is a Vandercook 4 that has been rebuilt, repainted, and has everything [...]

I recently repaired an SP20 at the University of West Georgia on which the carriage had become stuck during the return travel. The photos above shows that top carriage bearings on the operator’s side had been removed during a previous repair attempt. Typically what happens on SP series presses is that the trip spring inside [...]

I need help identifying my “Vandercook”:http://www.accumulata.com/pics/vandercook.jpg. There is no model number anywhere on the press (nor any serial number), the plate states only “Vandercook Roller Series Proof Press”. There are 4 patent dates, all in 1914. It looks like the 17 or a member of the 15 family as seen on the “Vandercook website”:http://vandercookpress.info. The [...]