My first Letterpress Postcard
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After seven years, three moves, and a few good hearted but botched attempts at printing on my own presses, I am happy to announce that I have successfully printed my first edition of postcards today!
Most of what was holding me back in the past with my press was really the lack of space, and that fact that I hadn’t bolted it to a workbench. In the past each time I pulled the lever to print I was afraid that an eight hundred pound object was going to fall on me.
Here is my first full print run with my “Official Map Press”. I have another tabletop press that I am in the process of cleaning up and using, and I plan on having two going at once. It is getting addicting! I love how this age old technology retains it’s relevancy, and how my hundred year old press (1906) could be used a hundred years from now.
This is the first of four postcards slated to print this summer and fall. This time I mean it!!!
I will be sending this out in the next few days…maybe I will do another edition with other colors…
I also have some other plans in the works for these presses, and I will post more on that later.
Most of what was holding me back in the past with my press was really the lack of space, and that fact that I hadn’t bolted it to a workbench. In the past each time I pulled the lever to print I was afraid that an eight hundred pound object was going to fall on me.
Here is my first full print run with my “Official Map Press”. I have another tabletop press that I am in the process of cleaning up and using, and I plan on having two going at once. It is getting addicting! I love how this age old technology retains it’s relevancy, and how my hundred year old press (1906) could be used a hundred years from now.
This is the first of four postcards slated to print this summer and fall. This time I mean it!!!
I will be sending this out in the next few days…maybe I will do another edition with other colors…
I also have some other plans in the works for these presses, and I will post more on that later.
