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.
In a gleaming array of fine machinery, here stand some of our prized workhorses, Heidelberg 10 x 15 Red Ball Windmills!
Oh, strange mechanics.
Have you ever noticed how beautiful industrial wires could be?
One of my favorite parts of printing is watching fresh ink bloom on the rollers. Royal blue comes up nicely. Yes, to the printers out there, I did tighten up the rider roller. Laypersons that’s the silver one on top that carries extra ink and didn’t ink up like everything else.
It was fun to go say hi to the IT guys. We had a ball!
