Moving Press...
... more or less moved.
Utterly exhausting, three solid weeks of bits and pieces with the weekends filled with dozens of trips with the L/P forklift, each one filled with trepidation as I'd turn the corner from White onto Ninth Street, and head for that 20% grade from the street gutter up the sidewalk and up again into the overhead doorway.
Mid-way through the move, Ed Regan and Ed Jr made it from Indiana (where the press has been sitting since June) with the 10x15 "Original Heidelberg", our Mercedes of Letterpress. I've been calling her "Heidi"...
Over the last few days I've finally had some time to spend with the new press (from 1961) and get around to working through installing new rollers (from Roll-Crafters of Indianapolis), cleaning the overflowing sludge reservoir on the handy clean-up device, setting the new rollers, getting the tympan set up with new draw sheet and mylar packing. Also working out the various pneumatic questions, etc etc.
I'm also looking forward to getting the Intertek photopolymer platemaker up and running, have ordered a few sheets of A3 material from our friends at BoxCar Press, five of the regular, and five of the 'harder' polymer. I'm not sure which is preferable. I expect for short runs the 'softer' (and cheaper) is perfectly fine.
Meanwhile, the Thanksgiving weekend has disrupted paper delivery, which now will probably not arrive until next Friday, Nov 30.
I hope to do some printing the week after, but will be away until the Thursday on family business.
