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I’m a self-described print-aholic. I love everything about printing, the smell of the ink, the old mechanical printing presses, font design, typecasting, the whole shebang.
Thankfully my partner shares my passion. Last night we watched a documentary about Jim Rimmer owner of Pie Tree Press, walking the viewer through the process of designing a new font, milling the matrix, casting the font and finally printing a test sheet.
He used some amazing old time machines, two pantographs to reduce the design to type size, a typecasting machine and finally a printing press.
During the dialogue he described how he bought the press and nothing moved, it was locked up solid. He gradually restored it to working condition partly with parts he made using his lathe.
It was quite inspirational (to a print geek like me) and warmed my heart to see these machines working away as designed decades after they were made, producing beautiful print material.
It is my aspiration to eventually be in a position to have a small print shop.
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Thankfully my partner shares my passion. Last night we watched a documentary about Jim Rimmer owner of Pie Tree Press, walking the viewer through the process of designing a new font, milling the matrix, casting the font and finally printing a test sheet.
He used some amazing old time machines, two pantographs to reduce the design to type size, a typecasting machine and finally a printing press.
During the dialogue he described how he bought the press and nothing moved, it was locked up solid. He gradually restored it to working condition partly with parts he made using his lathe.
It was quite inspirational (to a print geek like me) and warmed my heart to see these machines working away as designed decades after they were made, producing beautiful print material.
It is my aspiration to eventually be in a position to have a small print shop.
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