30 Jun
Posted by: Paul Moxon, Moderator 251 views
Category: Grippers, SP series
Last week I was in New York to teach workshops at the Center for Book Arts, and also visited a couple of printshops including Daniel Morris’s The Arm 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 instead on a foot pedal.
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Paul
I worked with one of these for a couple of years. It also had the handle on the ink roller rather than the motor driven ink drum. Quite frankly, anything that slows you down and makes you more intuitive with the printing process is to your benefit.
Gerald
June 30th, 2007 at 9:31 pmhttp://Bielerpress.blogspot.com
my friends brian & sarah turner of the Cricket Press in lexington have one like this too. I helped them get it running [the cylinder had been removed and replaced incorrectly before they purchased it] I’d never seen anything like it. They say they love it though.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:33 pm-alex
press817
I agree with Gerald: working slowly (assuming the run is small) is where I find the best results and the pleasure in printing.
July 1st, 2007 at 8:27 am