Printing on the Provisional Press

[@James-oz7kw]

Thanks for this tutorial. My press is on its way to me and I’m trying to get set up. Where can I find the registration pins that you mention at 1:40?

[@jessicawhite8337]

Hi there, I get these registration pins from Blick - www.dickblick.com/items/awt-stainless-steel-registration-guides-pkg-of-3/. I use a bit of tape to attach them to the furniture, and the paper slides into the v-shaped wedge. I didn’t need tight registration for these prints, so I only used two pins along one side. For finer registration, you should use three pins - two on one side, and a third pin on an adjacent side. These are nice because they’re flexible - you can squeeze the “v” down so that the roller of the press glides over them without getting stuck.

[@James-oz7kw]

@@jessicawhite8337 thanks so much!

[@lhuhnphotography]

How and where are you attaching the registration guides?

[@jessicawhite8337]

The registration guides for the paper are taped to the furniture along one side. They are shaped with a "V" that catches the paper and a flat metal strip that lays flat on the surface - I use scotch tape to tape this strip to the furniture. If you're printing from a thin matrix like unmounted linoleum or copper plates, you can just tape the registration guide to the press bed (when you're printing on an etching press, not letterpress). When I print type-high for letterpress, it works better if the paper is lifted up to the same height so I always add an extra piece of furniture that's wide enough to hold these pins.

[@RoyBlumenthal]

Thanks for this! The plans for the press have changed from the WordPress blog to another location. I'll post the link in a separate comment, cos I'm pretty sure KZbin will spam block the link. Which means you won't get wind of the change.

[@dave20874]

Those quoins look very useful. Where can I find some of those?

[@jessicawhite8337]

Hi there, these are called "Challenge" quoins, not to be confused with "Challenge HiSpeed" quoins. They're fairly easy to find; just make sure that you get a matching quoin key (each type of quoin uses a different style of quoin key). From a search, I see that there are some currently available at Dry, Inc. - dry-inc.com/products/quoins