New user here… The printmaking studio I volunteer at has a V. No. 2. I cannot find, feel, or hear a trip mechanism on this press. Is there none? I’d love to make a tympan/frisket arrangement, but I can’t imagine keeping registration on impression both directions. I’d be grateful for enlightenment! Thanks very much.
MoreAuthor: Brian Allen
Retired from 45 years working with letterforms and typography - calligrapher, phototypesetter, print production, 20 years as a digital font engineer, 10 years with my own letterpress shop in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina. Lived in many places - I went where the work was.
I'm in Philadelphia, PA now, volunteering at a community printmaking studio, getting their letterpress area going - secondstatepress.org
Fun fact: while working at Monotype my handwriting was made into fonts for Microsoft - Segoe Script and Segoe Print. In the font menu of all copies of Windows OS since 2007. That and $5 gets me coffee...