big presses, big prints

It ain't big, but who cares! This is amazing!

That’s a lot of type-high real estate. The bed of our SP25.

The Heidelberg Windmill assembly line, circa 1957.

What a lovely place to work!

(via Twitter / @local918)

This isn't quite a Big Press photo, but it's a LOT of small ones all together. So nice.

Hello! I've just discovered your great site and have some examples of large printing presses that you may wish to feature. Can I submit a YouTube movie of an 1888 Wharfedale press being moved? Best wishes, Justin Knopp, Typoretum, Coggeshall, UK

Woah, hey! Just found this from ??? long ago. Please do submit your film, we'll post it!

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(via debelleschoses) Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo printing from a stone measuring 61x98 inches (1982). -Yeesh! Look at the size of that stone!

AND LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT PRESS!

Hamilton Wood Type Mfg. Co. was founded in 1880 and manufactured printer’s type and print shop furniture well in to the latter half of the 20th century. The Hamilton brand has been bought and sold through the years, and is currently owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Now operating as a working museum, the collection is being forced to move from the same building used to manufacture type since 1927. The cost for moving the equipment and collection (the largest collection of wood type in the world at 1.5M pieces!!) is steep. To make matters worse, they’ve been asked to move as soon as February.

If you’re a supporter of type or printing, or if you simply love design, please consider donating to the museum. Every sale, membership, and donation will only help.

More information is available on their website.

Consider simply purchasing a print or shirt, or becoming a member, or just flat-out donating to their cause. This is a part of printing and design history that we cannot let die.

Please reblog, retweet, repost, copy/paste - whatever you have to do. GET THE WORD OUT!

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Caxton Newspaper Cylinder Press Model 1945 by Bound Staff Press on Flickr.

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BIG PRESS!

The folks at Pickwick Independent Press in Portland, Maine weren't satisfied with just any large etching press, they had to make their own.

With technical help from David Twiss, they Frankensteined parts together from other presses and built a new SUPER press. HUGE!

Printeresting has the full writeup on their blog, along with myriad other photographs. Don't miss two of my favorites: "Don't Thank Me...", and "We May Be Slow..." (A Cannonball Print for sure...) Perhaps they would do well with a Clean Hands print from BPS to balance it out.

It’s New Press Day at Igloo Letterpress! (This is always a good holiday to celebrate.) Congrats to Allison who is having a Vandercook 232P delivered.

AND by the looks of the truck and trailer, our friend Steve Robinson of Letterpreservation is dropping it off.

Small world.

#bigpresses #vandercook #232P #letterpress #iglooletterpress #newpressday

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The Victory: an early web press (from Old Book Illustrations)

This picture was taken from Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, also known as the Trousset encyclopedia, Paris, 1886 - 1891.

Description:

The Victory was an early model of rotary web press. In other words, this means that the prints were obtained by the action of a pressure cylinder against another cylinder which carried the type, and that the paper supply was kept on a big roll and unwinded itself in a continuous movement. This particular press could print, fold and count 8000 copies of an eight page newspaper in an hour.

This is a Babcock press, still in operation at Tribune Show Print. (Taken with Instagram)

FAG was a Swiss letterpress proof press manufacturer.

This is the FAG Control 900. From the proofpress.ch website:

Heavyweight proofpress

For its size, the FAG Control 900 only came with power driven cylinder and only with a fixed pressbed. Another very important difference to the smaller models was that with the FAG Control 900 will print in landscape format – means that the grippers will hold the sheet on the longer (!) side.

Press bed size: 900 x 680 mm (35 x 26.75 in.) Sweet.

This press is located in babyinktwice’s studio in Zurich, Switzerland.

Found via serialmachinist.

Guest artist big print day (Taken with Instagram)

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Big prints in progress over at Keegan Meegan Press and Bindery.

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But what kind of mileage does it get?

#Vandercook #232P #letterpress #bigpresses

Who cares??!

Well if you missed the last one, here's ANOTHER Vandercook 232P for sale! This time in Auburn, AL.

http://briarpress.org/30916

1907 Miehle #00 at Printers’ Hall (by SALTYDOGIA)