Antique printing press 'Marinoni, presse Universelle, 1880'

Set up, restoring and printing on the Marinoni cilinderpress 'Presse Universelle' from about 1880 in the Historische Drukkerij Turnhout, Belgium.

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Howto & Style

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• letterpress
• printing
• press
• marinoni

[TheHernan1955]

Hasta el año 1974 tuvimos en operaciones una Marinoni, que imprimía hasta tamaño 77x110cms. Tenía un volante de aprox. 1,80 mts. y lo operábamos en forma manual.

Considerando su antiguedad, aún en ese año (´74), era una máquina de gran calidad. Los rodillos eran de una pasta en base a colapez, azpucar, glkicerina y otros componentes.

[vmkern]

I don't know of any other active newspaper running on this type of technology (please let me know if I'm wrong - twitter @vmkern).

It started in 1887. The founder's son took over in 1947 and led the paper until his death in 2005, at 101.

[vmkern]

Damn U2B won't allow URLs. So if you want to learn some historical facts (in Portuguese), search for "O Taquaryense, fundado em 31 de julho de 1887, por Albertino Saraiva"

[vmkern]

There's a Marinoni still in use, printing a weekly newspaper - O Taquaryense, the 10th oldest active paper in Brasil (2nd in Rio Grande do Sul state).

[vmkern]

(Let's try to fool "Error. Try again" by posting piecewise...)

[quinsedlethorpid]

thats so cool

[mvmytho]

what a video, it made my hair stand up, as this is similar to the first machine I ever ran when I started in printing in 1962.

We called them flat beds and had 2 women feeders for each machine who would take it in turns to feed a ream at a time. The major problems would be the furniture between the type would rise and take ink, when you were not watching, a bit like litho machines scumming. A learning process! ALWAYS watch the delivery.

[TheJulioCode]

I think that whichever machine did a good job some other time in the past deserve our admiration and respect. We have to remember that at its time it was somehow a breakthrough in technology.

[altorecitalehacemos]

tengo una Marinoni Paris en mi taller, que utilizaba para imprimir pliegos de hojalata; que de necesitarla aun funciona e imprime ok!

[pickalobob]

WOW! I would love to work with you guys, those old machines are one of my passions!