Hi! One of Virginia Book Arts’ Vandercooks (a Universal I AB P that was converted to hand-crank) has always had a difficult-to-clean ink drum* that would appear to be successfully cleaned by a printer post-printing session, but then randomly introduce bits of ink from past print sessions into future printing sessions (e.g. you’re printing with […]
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Understanding hand-cranked rollers
Hello! I’m trying to understand non-electric/non-motorized cylinder press that still have inked rollers (for cylinder presses, I’ve only printed with ones that have power ink distribution, or handinked with a brayer). For cylinder presses that instead use non-motorized handwheel ink distribution (like the Vandercook 3 or similar Challenge models), does anyone know how often you […]
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