Build a Letterpress & Use It to Print Things

Step 9 And...

Now you've got a print. Repeat the last few steps a hundred & fifty or so times, and you'll have yourself a respectable edition.

*After some screwing up, and have no doubt about it, there will be some screwing up, I got to the point where I could get a consistently good print every minute & a half to two minutes. It does take a long time, but you save a lot of money, and you get to do it yourself.

Comments

[hamad2]

Thank you for the idea

[crazyg]

i got a cast iron one of those presses out of a skip,i painted it green and yellow. still slightly baffeled be a bookdart,but iv got a photocopyer so im probably ok,(heavier balls on spinny clamp bit at top make it self tightening,give it a shove and it steadly spins down giving a uniform grip each time,shame i use mine as a vice.

[metalfury]

Thanks for the instructable. Inspiring and I'm looking foward to having a go!

[kidpolaroid]

I'm envisioning this process working quite well, but am wondering about the bookdarts... Did you have any problems using them--like them making indentations on the paper? (Keep in mind I have no idea what a bookdart is made of.) Also, did you run across any registration problems? (I'm guessing your plate image is slightly larger to allow for "bleeding" off the page.) Thanks! Awesome job...

[quickbrownfox]

Weird, I also have a printing press, brew beer, and wear (blue?) Chuck Taylors.