Respect for his patience level 🗿

And the patience level of anyone who watched that whole clip at normal speed, without skipping!

In college I got a job at a print shop and they started me out on an old letter Press machine like this with only one ink roller. It was so cool. I eventually graduated to an AB Dick offset. I also learned to sit type on a hot lead lineotype machine.

I wonder how many modern printers will continue to work reliably when they are this old. I have a guess.

My high school Heidelberg!

I worked on a hand feed press like this in the 1980’s at E.T. Samuel Printers in Cleveland, Ohio. There is a foot break on the right side. If you don’t tap it, it keeps going faster and faster. If you could swap out your paper at max speed, it was a great day. I miss “The Shop”.

When it was invented it was considered fast.

The ink refills are way less expensive than modern printers.

Hence the phrase ‘roll the presses’

Worked on one of these in Hogh School… setting lead type for letterheads and business cards. It’s how I learned offset printing.

Respect for MY patience level! Wasted two minutes of my life with this. 😖

Dude! This just brought back a whole shitload of memories. Learning the California job case, working on a press, that wasn't motorized. Ah the good old days. The only picture of me that I have from me in the shop, unfortunately I'm watching somebody else and not working.

Old is gold, very good

Learned how to use this press and how to set type. Who knew back then it would almost totally disappear it was part of industrial arts in school.

Someplace to still use it for wedding invitations, and business cards

I learned how to use the platen press in high school graphic arts class Back in the 70s. One of my classmates got his hand smashed flat using it, that was not a pretty sight.

I understand the technics, but how to clean the table and the rolls?

I worked a printer like this when I was in the seventh grade. It was soooo cool.

¡Qué maravilla!

I used to operate one similar to this one when I first started work in 1966. I also operated the 10x15 heidelberg platen.

My father worked as a bookbinder at the Jagiellonian University printing house in Krakow from the age of 16. In the late 1980s, all the bookbinders lost their jobs overnight because PC and MS Word were introduced. he arranged all the rows, from all types of fonts, page by page.

Is it a chander price, I have a same one

I have one taking up space in my garage. Any offers still works

Not just his patience, its our patience too😉

It's crazy how much has changed. 🤯

He is amazing

How do they clean this afterwards?

An old platen press. I operated one of those before. Cool to see!

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A mi todavía me tocó trabajar donde existía este tipo de imprenta. Se armaban las placas de meta y se formaban las palabras escribiéndolas en sentido contrario para que en el papel se imprimieran en sentido correcto.

Wow that's good

He just stayed calm

Fascinating! And I found the sound of the rollers on the ink plate oddly satisfying.