Tag Archives: tips

Apr
18
2009

Pulled A Print On Your Top Sheet?

So what happens when you are happily letterpress printing along and accidentally pull a print on your top sheet? If you leave that ink there it gets on the back side of the next dozen impressions you pull. Even if you wipe it away with a rag, there can still be some residual ink transfer.
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Mar
13
2009

Roller Coaster, Yeah, Ooh Ooh Ooh

Here’s a tip for getting some letterpress roller coasting love. We take something into our press room from the pitchers mound - a rosin bag. You can get them at your local sporting goods store and they should cost only a few dollars. A rosin bag will change your life when printing on a Heidelberg [...]

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Feb
21
2009

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Lube Gun

Vintage machines live or die depending on our care of their lubrication needs. Certain areas on the Heidelberg Windmill presses have lots small oil points - like the gripper head and the paper feed. It is all to easy to over oil and end up with drips oozing everywhere, not cool when you are trying [...]

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