A handful of delicious Smock bar mitzvah cards makes the eye wobble with delight.
Handful of Eye Candy
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Author Archives: Carrie Valenzuela
Vandercooking
Jake is printing bellybands on the Vandercook press. Notice the tape registration system he’s got set up – black straps that hold the sheet against cylinder for returning sheet to operator instead of having to collect it from the end of press bed.
Ghost in the machine
Tim the printer discovered a friend looking back at him as he cleaned his press.
Deep Seas to Gaze at
This is a dreamy view of a washup tray that is catching dregs of blue-green ink mixed with a bit of opaque white.
Flash from the past
When we made an epic shop move a few years ago from one side of the building to the other, this was one of the most astounding sights ever : a gigantic cutter gliding across a sea of freshly epoxied floor. It was beautiful to see this great machine docked at its current post!
Tim, the Headless Pressman
Tim is completing makeready on his Heidelberg Windmill.
Say hi to Lou!
Lou is at the light table doing set-up on an envelope.
Gears and Pulleys, Ball-bearings and Bolts
A window into the soul of a Heidelberg offset press.
Hidden in a press
This relic was found in our Vandercook Universal 1. The International Typographic Composition Association was founded in 1920, renamed Typographers International Association in 1980 and in 1996 merged into the Graphic Arts Professional Association.
Big Blue
To most people, this may look like a menacing instrument. However others knowledgeable about Heidelberg’s mighty SBB cylinder press will recognize a demure sheet-holding finger that helps paper feed through the press.
