Steel Petal Press - Letterpress Printing

[@burntreynolds1068]

Hello! I am a museum curator from Nottingham, England and have been working on a project for the last 15 months researching the local history of printing. We have several 19th century platen & lithographic printers and I am researching their operation and how the different parts relate to each other. This video was a great help! Thank you so much!!

[@EmansAdventures]

Omg, love this, my first job out of high school over 60 years ago was running a 10x15Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress,thank you for shareing.

[@blackbeard68]

My grandfather did this type of printing for years. My aunt still has his printing equipment. I am very happy to see people utilizing this type of printing still.

[@jerrymead3726]

I did this for many years also. I was a printing press operator for the City of Los Angeles.

[@cooleve]

If I want to change the color, do I have to clean those rollers and how do I clean them? Did you remove the wheels and wash them with detergent?

[@JanSierpe]

Thank you for showing the world what you are doing with your press. I loved your video.

[@constantdarkfog49]

Your doing some really nice work, I was amazed to see your manual cutter. I spent 38 years in the printing profession & had not seen a manual cutter before, very cool. Nice video, Thanks

[@cooleve]

If I want to change the color, do I have to clean those rollers and how do I clean them? Did you remove the wheels and wash them with detergent?

[@scottsodyssey2485]

Great video, wonderful job working those old printing machines. :)

[@fosterchild72]

Wish i could go back several years and get into this as a career.

[@elblito86]

I so love the fact that you named your machines! its nice to find people as attached to things as one is. I have an old Arab letterpress called Sputnik and an old guillotine still nameless...its old but for me its still new, ill come out with a name soon! greetings from Argentina! =) loved your video!

[@mypugsdad5366]

My Dad had a print shop I ran a Chandler and Price 12 X18 letterpress hand feed. Started setting hand type when I was 12. Ran a office press too.

[@olivemeartsie6507]

This video gave me chills! I would love to do this some day. Bucket list # 247

[@SinnerSince1962]

So cool! I just picked up a vintage Victor letterpress for $35 and am just finding out how freakin' awesome this craft is!

[@jontypiper9881]

My Dad was a letterpress printer, he'd have loved this 😊

[@aarond.poscovsky7230]

Wish I had a great worker like this lady at my shop!

[@paulkempton1834]

Super video nice to to see the hand printers still hard at work :)

[@fernandovalencia3542]

It's a proof press!! Letter press is a craft! I was a craftsman on all letter presses as well as offset! I started in printing at 16 running letter and small duplicators! 38 years and I seen the transformation from letter to large offset when I retired! It was a good run for me until automation shewed the field!! Now presses can be ran by owners instead of hiring a pressman! Sad!!

[@dancerman1138]

A true craft person thank you for sharing

[@michaelperez8561]

I remember I started die cutting on a 12x15 1945 Kluge but then they brought in a 1968 SBB Heidelberg cylinder and now everything is super different now. Still super cool but I've never made my way to printing. Hopefully I'll get there to printing

[@JoseGSifontes]

Amo las artes gráficas y te admiro a ti mujer por dedicarte a tan hermoso trabajo.

[@NoDeadlines]

Very nice and a pleasure to watch. Your shop looks a lot like my own - C&P,s Vandercooks - even down to the old ATF Chief in the background. Of course, I let my Chief go years ago and do only letterpress these days - mostly using hand-set foundry type. Not to say lithography is dead, but I prefer letterpress, myself. But if I *were* still doing offset, the Chief is the press I would want to have. It's the best of that size press ever made, imho. I spent today doing a boring number/perf job on my Heidelberg Windmill, but even that simple job was fun...

[@sniffypigster]

Wow, that's nice! there's definitely something about Letterpress. more artisan & personal looking than offset-litho. All you need now is a working Linotype machine to complete the set!

[@СергейРяшкин]

Whow!!! She is FIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!!!

[@marcoxso]

I work in printing for 15 years, I know the printers that have worked with your own machines, are now retired. I have always worked modern machines, I would like to compliment you for your tenacity and passion to work the vintage machines. I would like to ask you why you pushed to continue this profession? Now we continue to use digital printing though the old machines are always useful for the die cutting of small sizes and low quantity.

[@shaynanorwood162]

Thanks Pablo! Yes, its very common to name machines, since they always seem to have a life of their own :)

[@عبدالرزاقالجلبي-ي3ص]

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[@bthemedia]

This video is so awesome!!! =)

[@jerrymead3726]

Nice video Shayna. I really do miss printing.

[@shrikrishnatailang4694]

I like old method letter press printing it is safe for securit

[@eonejaya7111]

Thats art....

[@Mf7d89]

a lot of hard work

[@bhentv5450]

Nice video i spent 8 years in printing i want To apply mam😍

[@johnlyngdoh1959]

I'm big fan

[@cooleve]

If I want to change the color, do I have to clean those rollers and how do I clean them? Did you remove the wheels and wash them with detergent?

[@ciro1957toro]

no me canso de ver ésto. mi oficio.

[@zachmadsen2413]

OMG she has my dream job!

[@mhm8769]

Good printing press

[@ciro1957toro]

Hola, aún es rentable en tu país éste trabajo? ése cilindro es una máquina para sacar pruebas ó le falta el sistema de salida? Soy impresor y al parecer pronto se acabará ésto. Dí pulgar arriba, saludos. contestadme.

[@brentbarnhart5827]

In Letterpress printing, if you can FEEL, the printing it has been done incorrectly. My father would walk through the shop when I was 8 years old, pull a sheet from the feeder, feel it with his hands, if he could feel any of the letters, he would throw the entire job into the garbage can, and tell me to START OVER, and do it correctly. Correct letterpress printing, you don't "feel" impressions in the paper.

[@aarond.poscovsky7230]

GREAT!!!!

[@saipraveen588]

Hlo sayana... I have that kind of old letter press..

[@sudheendransurendran7141]

Super mam

[@leonardohvac7174]

I love It

[@brentbarnhart5827]

1 final comment.... wearing that wedding ring, is a good way to lose your finger. My family owned the largest commercial print shop in the state of Ohio for over 100 years. I am an engineer in the trade, and I can tell you story after story of those who lost fingers, hands, and entire arms doing what "everyone does" until the day comes, it happens. Don't wear that ring. I in fact, new a guy who reached up to pull 1 ream of paper off the shelf, he stepped up 1 step. When he stepped down, the weight of his body, and in that split second of the edge of the shelf catching his ring, removed his entire finger. And the problem with that accident, is that it pulls the nerves out of your arm, out the hole in your finger, so sometimes, you loose the use of your arm. I see I'm 11 years late.

[@СергейРяшкин]

Yeeeeeah!!! That is sweeeeeeeet girl!!! I want she!!!

[@xTerenceSkillx]

btw, quality of the card at 2:16 isnt good^^ triangle didnt match... that could be much better^^

[@Kekker1944]

that was not a Pedal powered Press, I printed on Chandler and Price 14x15 Hand feed with a Pedal 35 Years in Letterpress Printing.

[@mustaphamustaphafaiad8513]

عمل جيد و متقن

[@wilarguello1598]

Tendré una prensa propia aunque la construya de madera.

[@MuhammadMuhammad-tp1oz]

hi mam i want some proper information about GTO Heidelberg Printing machines both auto+manual i think some informative videos about that or any links.Thanks waiting your kind reply.

[@peterhrick6789]

Heidelberg GTO is a offset machine, not Letterpress.

[@ioannouandreas4]

respect. :)

[@peterhoare6818]

Looks like a lovely video but simply had to cut viewing short because of horrendous noise track accompanying. Why spoil a neat video with senseless sound?

[@cebjr]

We still die cut on these hand presses.

[@robertgriffin3285]

I need a job. 40 years experienced.

[@bnjdancer8635]

🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦 Good

[@hwntwww]

I hope you still have all of your fingers

[@juliannevillecorrea]

penelope .. jaws \m/..\m/

[@OtisAdonisChad]

You most certainly need a motorised guillotine/cutter. There are many beautiful compact ones available. While a nice vintage cutter should be part of you hardware inventory, that cut you made with hand driven pressure seemed awkward.

[@SinnerSince1962]

I noticed that also.

[@dilshansampathbandara8466]

Nice. Can you send me birthday card imege your printed.

[@emanuel1.168]

Nice video, terrible music.

[@nasir7640]

i wanna met you dear i will pay you

[@xxxsports]

wicked!!