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 [...]

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 [...]

Many Vandercook owners remember Gene Wenderski, the last Vandercook trained maintenance person at Vandersons, the predecessor company to NA Graphics. Gene literally disappeared in the summer of 1996 as we were buying NA Graphics and numerous attempts to find him failed. It was a sense of great frustration for me as one of the selling [...]

Donald Kerr at University of Otago [New Zeeland], informed me of his institution’s Vandercook made by Pre Press Ltd. of London. His photos show a carriage nameplate stating that it is a “No.4″:http://vandercookpress.info/years35-53.html#4. However, the cabinet and feed board styling (and presumedly the inking system were it present) is that of a “215″:http://vandercookpress.info/years35-53.html#215. Interested readers [...]

I have complied a census of existing Vandercook Presses (listed in the side bar under Pages as “Press Census”:http://vandercookpress.info/vanderblog/?page_id=167) it is independent of NA Graphics’ records, but thanks to Fritz Klinke’s coöperation will soon be augmented by them. Because NA’s records may not indicate the current owner or note manufacturing oddities, and do not include [...]

Keith Stubley in Sheffield, UK contacted me about locating a manual for his Vandercook and sent me two interesting photos. The first shows a nameplate on the carriage with the model name left blank and a serial number that does not correspond to existing records. At bottom it states that the press was made in [...]

Paul Moxon and I kicked around the idea of doing a blog for Vandercook presses when he visited me in Silverton earlier this summer. I can hand set type, but the computer work is beyond me, so Paul has done all the work to set this up. We want to limit discussion to Vandercook primarily [...]