Letterpress printing: Thomson Laureate (Colts Armory)

A quick shot of my letterpress trailer, and the Thomson Laureate Model J Half Super Royal

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[lordburzum]

looks Like he's just embossing the paper ??

With the double impression.

[dpetrzelka]

Double impression - yes. But not for embossing. I'm actually doing a double kiss impression with that pastel pink ink.

To get good coverage, without flattening the texture on the back side of the sheet, I do a double kiss, with really light ink (avoiding and halos from over inking).

The registration on the Laureate is amazing, and allows me to do double, or triple hit if needed.

[sketchpadcoffee]

spenny i disagree with you there, these machines are perfectly safe. Naturally, whoever is working with machinery should be aware of inherent dangers, but as smokeynewton said "careless people are accidents waiting to happen". Furthermore, the press pushing in to punch the paper doesnt have the force to break a hand or injure severly, it looks more dangerous than it is. Letterpress need's not much force to print. Take care :D

[dpetrzelka]

Make no mistake - a careless person can sustain significan injuries. A carefull pressman (person) can turn out beautiful work without any worry for personal safety.

[dmaverick72]

The one we used to run back in school was just like this EXCEPT it took two people to run it! WHY? Someone stole the motor one day!

[dpetrzelka]

I've treadled a few thousand impressions on my old 12x18 C&P, and hand cranked runs of 4000 on a 219 Vandercook - but I can't imagine treadling a Laureate or Colts.

[kgdies]

I had one of those from around the 1890's 13 x 22 all the ink rolls were taken off we used it for die cutting only, heck I still have the old gearbox and drive pully.

First hand feed die cutter I ever ran.

[razor71927]

@dmaverick72 I thought you were going to say it was because they both lost a hand on that machine.

[pheenix42]

'Old-school' technology that simply refuses to die....and I'm glad to see the big iron still having a job to do in this day of computer-driven everything!

=)

[vickozoomba]

Sketchpadcoffee - how on earth do you qualify your statement of "the press pushing in to punch the paper doesnt have the force to break a hand or injure severly, it looks more dangerous than it is. Letterpress need's not much force to print"? Im a tem-served letterpress printer and I can assure you that ANY platen will do more than just break a few bones in your hand if you insert it. The *capability* of platens is in the region of tonnes of pressure.

[pickalobob]

I had an old Chandler & Price that had a food pedal on it like an old singer sewing machine. I kinda miss the old girl, she's now in a store window of the outfit I sold the shop to.

[lordburzum]

NICE !!! Press looks solid !!