Here is a part of a very common printer’s tool. Can you identify it? Here’s a hint: rhymes with coin fee.
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He’s been working steadily printing Smock cards. Soon he will have his own private enclosed digs!
Actually it’s Joe and bamboo that grows in Pat’s magic Heidelberg windmill. We’re waiting to see if Joe climbs it.
Bill is also becoming a press farmer with a strong daffodil that’s growing like crazy!
The sleep machine is running, unaware it is being watched. Long out of production, this Heidelberg 10 x 15 windmill letterpress still runs smoothly & precisely with the loving care it has been given over the decades. If you listen closely, you can hear it breathing & purring as ink is pressed to downy white cotton paper.
Our friend Kent from Nomadic Press sent in these gifts of a printshop game called Quad Rats. The object is not to let the boss find out you’re playing with quads so you hide them in your hand under the composing taable until tossing them quickly to see how they land – nicks facing up, standing upright or in a stack. As we quickly found out, Quad Rats is addictive so after work, we’ll be camping out and playing all night. Thank you ever so much for the lovely gifts, Kent!!
In a gleaming array of fine machinery, here stand some of our prized workhorses, Heidelberg 10 x 15 Red Ball Windmills!
Oh, strange mechanics.
Jake and Dave ponder how to acquire more flannel to keep warm during our frigid central NY winter.
Have you ever noticed how beautiful industrial wires could be?