Letterpress Techniques: Overprinting With Neon Pantones!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- We demonstrate the use of our antique Chandler & Price letterpress to craft a colorful business card using a technique called overprinting. With the use of three Pantone colors and two printing plates, we show how overlapping the colors in a design can create striking and unique results. This behind the scenes video also shows how we set up our press and register our colors. Follow along to see this press in action! We’ll be using Pantone Yellow 012, Pantone 806 Neon Pink, and Pantone 801 Fluorescent Blue! The combination of these colors can produce an incredible effect.
This turn of the century press dates back to 1912 when it was manufactured in Ohio based on the original patent from 1899. It’s a Gordon Style letterpress with one of the largest printable areas manufactured at that time. Using all new ink rollers and some elbow grease, we brought this press back to life and have been using it to print and die-cut some of our most challenging print projects yet. Hand feeding each sheet helps us keep a close eye on color, registration, and quality which helps us produce the finest work possible.
We hope to engage with creatives all over the world to promote challenging and inspiring designs. If you are a designer working in print and have a concept that pushes the limits… please reach out! We always enjoy collaborating with talented industry leaders to further the craft of letterpress!
By sharing these videos, we hope to help artists and creatives learn more about the process behind our printing and create a community where print design will flourish. Please leave any questions or comments in the comment section below and be sure to subscribe. We have so many more videos on the way!
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After 30 years in print, many of which spent on Heidelberg platen and cylinder presses, its good to see this craft being maintained and good to see it done well too, attention to detail is everything. I miss my machines ;)
How many price of this machin
I grew up in a print shop that my Father purchased 4 months before I was born. Closed the doors after 39 years. Also worked for his Uncles Print Shop. They rolled letterpress newspaper mats, he had a cylinder, hand feeds and a windmill. Knew nothing about offset, until he got drafted and stationed at Fort Hood, 1963. The joy it brings my Dad when I find Videos of presses that he's always used as reference whenever I ran into a snag, along with my personal gratitude. Having said all that, really unique how you packed the Tympan to achieve impression. I often seen my dad use a torn sheet of paper, run his finger on the side of the press for grease, go behind the platen, add grease and torn sheet to any low-spots, just never seen him make-ready to register.
Love the colours and the simplicity of the card.
Never realised it was such an involved process until I saw these videos. Great to watch
Most people don’t get the chance to see how this kind of work is done. We’ve been making these videos just to show how much work really goes on behind the scenes. Thanks for your comment!
As a long-time Letterpress printer, with all sizes of the C&Ps - from the Pilot up to the 12x18 we call "Big Ben", I enjoyed the familiar sound of your press running with the old Kemble motor. And, I was pleased to see you practicing pretty nearly the same techniques that I was taught over fifty years ago. Although we were taught to "kiss the paper", and not make as deep an impression as is popular today, your impression appears to be just right for the paper you printing on - and your register is indeed "dead-on" or, as we tend to say "dot for dot". Very pleasing video passing on some very correct techniques of this craft. Thank you.
Thank you Alan! The only thing I would've done differently is mounted each plate upside down so that they were right side up as they were being delivered. Just as type is supposed to be: reverse and upside down.
it is so nice seeing the process and how the skill is needed on the swift pass through of paper.
really cool result on the font off set...with perfect image. It really stands out!
Beautiful indeed... I'm a manual typesetter as a profession, so I have a very warm feeling in my heart seeing this. :-)
I like how the text takes advantage of this too.
So fascinating! I could watch this for hours! Thank you for sharing!
I went to a museum that had an active print shop with these machines, and now I'm here. I kinda want to learn how to do this now.
Find yourself a "print finishing" shop and tell them you're willing to learn!
I do like it. Have started this process since 1978.
I was trained in letterpress printing at a Tech high school here in CT in the 1970's. I loved it and resisted the move toward offset printing, but letterpress was a 'dying' art. I had a small shop for a few years in my parent's basement with a 6x10 kelsey. I can only imagine all the type cases emptied, used for arts and crafts and the type melted down for fishing weights. 😳
I miss having the equipment around as it would be fun to print jobs that are appreciated for the impression marks! I love it.
Thanks for stirring up some good memories. I could use some and those were good times.
Cheers,
Pete
We remember the days of our Adana 5x8 in the attic with just a case of 12pt Caslon to learn with...
We're years away from that now but not much has changed! Thanks for your comment Pete.
I'm in love with this process
Please continue with the videos, learning so much.
I love these presses. When I was in school I graduated in 1988, I wanted to get into printing so bad with this style printers, unfortunately, I could not find a job and we were transitioning from old to new but I'm 50 now and still wish I could do it I just love the way they look work everything.
What a mechanical marvell these machines are, love watching them whirr away 👍
Amazing really!
that right hand should be awarded for consistency 😁
I have a newfound love and respect for the time & effort that goes into this craft and line of work. Honestly mindblown 🤯 new subscriber and look forward to watching more vids 🤘🏼
Wow, amazing. There such a beauty to this craft. ❣️
i deal with antiques and you cant beat the old school way of doing things. sure you can do it other ways and faster, but odds are the new machines will be in the landfill in 10 years.
Love it, keep them coming
Awesome video. Thank you!
NOT EASY, it's a DELICATE process... and NICE FINAL PRODUCT !!!!
fallen in love with letterpress. just. like. that. :-)
That's how it starts!
Excellent.
Many thanks!
After all it is wonderful. Exact location. Cool color. Great. 모든 내용을 다 이해는 못했지만 너무 잘 봤습니다.
Love this video
Cool counter-rotating ink discs. You don’t see many that are actually functional these days, not that they were a big hit back in the day or that they make much difference. You can definitely see and hear the wear in the press- visually in the backlash of the ink-disc and audibly in the various clanks on the press. The ratchet on the back side of the ink disc is creating some of those sounds, but there are others. When you run enough of these presses for long enough, you start hearing things... Speaking of sounds, I thought I heard the air pump on a windmill running in the background during some of those clips... The motor is struggling a bit- basically the pulley is too small -the arc of contact is too small and the belt slips, more at times and less at times. That’s why you hear the motor speed up and slow down as the load from the press changes. Dollars to doughnuts, your drive pulley is super polished from the belt slipping. There is no harm in this except premature wear of both belt and pulley, but they are easily and cheaply enough replaced. And the only solution would be a half shaft to step the speed down in two steps. (Assuming you wanted to keep the motor/speed controller original and not go 3-phase with a VFD). Great video. Keep up the good work!
Thank You, Kindly share. Keep up....
I own a clamshell diecutter which works exactly like that press. You could easily register the next workpiece by placing a carbon copy paper on the moving mold and let the plate strike it to create impressions onto the background paper, then hollows out a piece of your to-be-printed stock at key locations of the image and align them to the striked image on the mold and move the holding clip to that paper's resting position. It sounds complicated, but its actually more precise and gets the job done in one go.
I know exactly what you're talking about. We'll use carbon paper for large forme die cutting and to feel out registration and impression on more complicated work - but for something as simple as this it isn't exactly necessary. We can't show every possible step in our videos and everyone seems to have their own style of preparing their makeready. Clamshells are good fun, especially the 40" ones with foil... Thanks for your input!
These are great
You will only give these out only to customers/clients that either preordered a product/service. Giving these out is like giving out trophies. Customers got a earn it. If not, snap a picture and give it back.
God I love those machines.
You said it.
Please post MORE. I love this content, the presentation, the filming and editing. So good!
Agreed with Adrock, please keep posting. Also, I want to know which paper you are using in this video for print..?? Can I but it online somewhere, please share link if any..??
Love from my heart
Perhaps there is a video out on it already, however, where to how to do you produce the plates themselves? Looks like they might be one-time use deals?
You didn't show the trimming! Trimming is very satisfying!
These videos are eye openers for those of us who are not ex pro printers. Great work. I'm curious what solvent you use to wash away the ink and clean the presses ?
Hello my son, I remember my youth, when I finished this machine there was no internet system in my country at that time, now I remember my machine
Dad?
What a beautiful press! I would absolutely love to learn to work on this amazing piece of art! Thank you for the display! I’m curious...when you switched from the pink to the blue, I didn’t see you clean off the pink from the plate. Is that something you did and simply didn’t address as you did with the previous color, or does it not matter when switching to the darker color? Thanks! Much love, Shelbie =)💛💕
damn that machine flow
Thanks for the clear explanation and sharing the techniques on letterpress printing!
Somewhere on UA-cam there’s a video of a woman running a hand fed platen press at a really frightening speed. I did a bit of letterpress back in the ‘70#, but always slowly.
@@srfurley I remember reading in an old Golding & Co. manual that an experienced operator could handfeed a press at 3000 impressions per hour. Most people don't even run their motors that fast...
This Press is there in My School.
Fun!
7:50 - Oh god the images in my head 😬
Thanks
Trabalho com tipografia até hoje, parabéns
I noticed that the ink plate had some corrosion on it where it was possibly stored with the rollers on it?
I am reviving a old C and P press. I have a 3"pulley on the motor so the motor speed has to be vary slow. I see you are driving with a vary small diameter on the motor end, does this work ok with the splice on the belt? And what is the diameter of the pulley on the motor end.
Thanks in advance, am thinking of going smaller. Bob
Is your press a new series or old style C&P? Our drive at the motor end is probably about 3” as well but I’ll have to take some measurements for you. The belt has no problem making it around this even with the splice. Have you considered sourcing a treadle instead of motorizing? It’s quite the workout!
This pretty interesting. It is, it is...
do you have an idea for those who make paper bags and want to put logos on them
What is the benefit of this over a modern printer, or is it more of a hobby?
Controlling your color for a perfect color match, using custom inks, higher quality in detail (text down to 2pts), paper thicker than 12pt. (up to 60pt), being able to print on unusual mediums (totebags, t- shirts, paper bags, boxes, tissues). Plus, this press will die-cut shapes too. It's hard to list all the benefits. The biggest benefit is theres no stinkin' ink cartridges!
Fantastic vid, what kind of base do you use? I was looking at buying a Boxcar base (from the US - I'm in Sydney Aus) but figured I can probably just buy something local. What thickness in mm is it?
We use a couple different base heights depending on the thickness of the plate or the process we're doing. You can't go wrong with a boxcar base but almost any solid chunk of aluminum that is ground down to .875" inches would work well.
Pretty cool stuff. The cleaning part seems a little exhausting to me 😂
On this machine it is very exhausting.
So cutee
hi, greets from germany. does this overprinting works even when the first colour is allready dry?
perfect :)
Man what are you using to clean your rollers? And why magnesium plates? Don’t they bend and crimp?
WOWOWOW
I love the videos, you make such professional content!
What are you washing the press with, water or some kind of solvent?
It’s a water soluble solvent specifically designed for press ink wash up!
What solvent do you use? It's cleaning up that ink so well! I'm hecka jealous
Varn blanket wash! Good stuff made specifically for ink!
@@JukeboxPrintLive Thanks Fam! You're too legit! :D
how much cost for 1000 business cards printing
wonderfull work, its posible to make the embossing with a 3d printed image? only for testing new materials
there was people back then who could create complex machines like this but couldn't think to invent tape
funy0n they not yet know how to make thin and strong paper also the chemicals for the glue, more over how to put that glue on that thin paper.
@@BananaAllergy yeah i know, it's a joke
Unforgettable VASUDEVA RAO
非常棒！ 仿佛闻到了油墨的气味
does pantone have more color options than cmyk while printing? why does one go for pantone rather than cmyk?
CMYK is a color process that creates a spectrum of color using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. These 4 colors aren’t always capable of printing uniquely bright colors such as hot oranges or bright greens. The Pantone system makes it possible to create an enormous color range, and keep that color range consistent across multiple print processes. Brands work with Pantone colours so that they always have the exact same color every time. CMYK or RGB printing doesn’t do this quite as well.
How do you make the printing plates? Are you milling them? or is it etching?
Etching!
I'm reading about photopolymer plates, and curing with UV.. But it looks like you've got a whole piece of aluminum there!
@@JukeboxPrintLive Wow thanks for the quick response. I was reading your other replies and your using magnesium. Will you ever do a video on that? I'd love to try making plates myself.
why not have a grid printed on the base paper to help
with registration???
When you was the inks off do you just use water or some alcohol base? Is the ink you’re using rubber based like in another video you did you said it was rubber based and that was why it was thick, you probably said it and I didn’t hear lol.
The is also really beautiful and satisfying to watch
The inks in this video are rubber based fluorescent inks. Our wash-up liquid is a specialty formulated solvent meant specifically for the print industry. It's a press wash designed for offset blanket cleaning. It'll clean the ink of easily and won't eat into the rubber rollers. Thanks for your question! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Is this oil-based ink or water-based ink?
I like its consistency. Can it be used for block relief printing?
These are oil based inks that can definitely be used for block relief printing. If you're used to water based ink then you'd be surprised at the difference. I recommend looking into rubber based inks too.
Tengo una y la uso para estampar libros hot foil
Old technology is best
You betcha!
Can you specify the brand of the wash up solvent? I see you say it is water-solvable. Does that mean the inks you used are also water-based, and not oil or rubber based? Just to be clear, would you identify the makes of both the wash up solvent and the inks.
Varn blanket wash. A water soluble solvent made for offset blanket wash up. Works great!
Jukebox Print So, are the inks you used water-based and not oil or rubber based? Would you specify the brand and product name of the inks, please.
No no, a solvent that is water soluble just means we can dilute it if needed. The inks are oil based inks made by Van Son.
Hi, with a small desktop letterpress is is possible to achieve a low relief? does it depend on the letterpress, the cotton paper, or both?
You may have answered this question but I was wondering if the ink is water- or solvent-based. Thx!
Sometimes we use an oil based ink and sometimes we use rubber bases ink!
@@JukeboxPrintLive, I've been using Braden/Sutphin Premium Duplicator inks for decades. It works on all substrates and has more pigment than any other ink I've used.
Nice! Thanks for the recommendation!
what makes this machine different from the other one? wouldn't it be more efficient to use the other one since you don't have to hand feed the paper? also what happens if you do try to reach for the paper O_____O love these videos btw the explanations are great :D
This may be a dumb question, but, are the printing plates custom made for each customer?
Yes they are. And they are reusable too!
You should host a giveaway to your subscribers. One lucky winner gets a small set of letter press business cards. You can walk us through your customer service/collaboration process.
We have a giveaway in our Color of The Year video. Two sets of letterpress printed business cards in Classic Blue. We haven't chosen our winners yet!
Hahaha mesin untuk praktek ketika masih sekolah dulu belajar soal cetak mencetak
How the plate is made?
How to you print images on the press?
What kind of trucks are you using on your rollers?! And gold! I use a 12x18 C&P but never seen those before.
These trucks were custom manufactured for this press!
Aún tienen trabajo en este tiempo, por favor.
WHAT KIND OF PAPER ARE YOU USING, HOW IS IT CALLED AND WHAT GRAMMAGE OR OUNCES IS IT?
ನಾನೂ ಪ್ರೆಸ್ ಆಪರೇಟರ್ ಜಾಬ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಕಂಪೋಸ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ.❤
What press is that, and what size? It looks quite large for a platen.
This is a 14 x 22 Chandler and Price platen. The largest bed size the company ever built. c1910?
what is the name of the paper, where do you buy it?
Refreshing to see a guy who actually knows what the hell he is doing post a video- too many who think they do have videos up
Thank you!!
Is this the actually Kluge Inc. commenting? If so, say hi to your field tech, Andy for us!
@@JukeboxPrintLive alas, no, just a random dude with a Kluge, but the compliment remains nonetheless!
@@brandtjenkluge9009 I see! Nothing like a Kluge - that's for sure. Those EHD foiling presses can feel like a mentor, and a tormentor. ha!
Caught my hand in one of theses presses in 1972
Did that mark the end of your printing career or the beginning? The tonnage on these things is enormous, I couldn’t imagine how that must’ve felt!
One Question: Where did you buy this hit stop. He seems to be magnetized.
Remind me when I was 15 y o, apprentice. Lol
That slap at 11:45 tho
SLAPP
That's great, but why not do a 2up die. Lots of room for it, it would only cost a little bit more but save half the labour. Looks like a pretty heavy card as well. The irony is that people want the impression from the letterpress because it's retro I guess but, back in the day the boss would have had a fit if you have too much impression. I run a small printshop, letterpress, diecutting, foiling embossing to offset & digital. I love the way these machines run forever, while all the newer digital stuff outdates every 5 years or so.
Two up would've been fine but we are trying to demonstrate printing in the simplest way instead of maximizing the run. Most people here don't understand the terminology of "ups". The look of deep impression works great for magnesium or copper dies but a head press operator would certainly have a fit if you ever tried to do this with lead type from the era. No one should ever try to push lead type into the paper for this effect.
The generation before printer
The generation where the "printer" was a person and the machine was the "press".
5:55 a spoon?
forgot a k?
is that pen Muji??
wow good eye!
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Isn't getting your hand caught in a printing press one of those injuries you hear about people getting back in the victorian times . seems like something ive heard before. That and getting your hand caught in a weaving machine.