This blog is six months old. Thank you to all the registered users, you now number 83. Together we have generated 55 posts (viewed over 10,000 times) and 254 comments. While these numbers are small, some good information has been captured and categorized for the common goal of extending the life of these presses. To […]
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Model 17
This ad from The Inland Printer (October 1918, courtesy of John Horn) shows a Vandercook model 17 Composing Room Cylinder press and a Roller Series press. Note that the company, founded in 1909, is still called Vandercook Press. It was incorporated as Vandercook & Sons later that same year. The street address is for the […]
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I have compiled a list of existing Vandercook Presses. This census 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 the stamped names of press inspectors, I encourage individuals […]
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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 […]
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An article in Sunday’s New York Times online edition “‘Retro Printers, Grounding the LaserJet’”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/arts/design/10hols.html features a photo of our own Eric Holub. –PM
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Scott Fisk, designer, educator, and vanderblog consultant, just bought a Reprex, a 1960s era down-market flatbed cylinder proof press. Its overall condition is quite good and it should prove to be serviceable. Its mechanisms, however, may seem a bit peculiar to most Vandercook operators. For example, the reservoir drum, while driven by a chain, also […]
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Fritz sent me this drawing of a No.4 cylinder showing its position at the feed board. It is posted for the benefit of Klu, and other tenacious individuals who dare to restore long-abandoned presses from which lesser mortals would have walked away. –PM The excerpt below was originally posted 10-11-06 by Paul Moxon on “PPL”:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PPLetterpress […]
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Dear members, Thank you for helping to get this blog off to such a great start. Since launching it two weeks ago your ranks have grown to 40. I appreciate the numerous public and private comments and as I learn more about the software I use to build this blog I promise to add better […]
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Happy 9-18 Day. The owner of a No. 4T wants to know whether his press has a galley height bed. He mentions that the undercut is .070″ and also wants to know the dimensions of the leveler’s feet, one of which is apparently missing. The simplest way to find out the height-to-paper of the press […]
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Welcome. Vanderblog is the forum area of “vandercookpress.info”:https://vandercookpress.info. Together these online resources are dedicated to sharing information on the maintenance and care of Vandercook proof presses, and to expand the common knowledge about other brands of flat-bed cylinder proof presses such as Asbern, Challenge and Reprex. Vanderblog is Moderated by Paul Moxon and Fritz Klinke, […]
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