circle beer coasters on a proofing press?

So there was a thread about beer coasters on letterpress mailing list which got me thinking about doing them on my Poco proofing press.

No bleed, full bleed, single color, multiple color, etc.

Making square ones and corner rounding them would be easy enough but what about pre-cut circles?

Printing those individually might be a pain, getting them centered on the form, etc.

So I thought, what about some sort of jig (frisket?)

I’m thinking if you had the form set up you could create some sort of lower-than-type-high jig which would slip over the form into slots within the lockup.

There would be a hole in the jig to hold the coaster centered on the form as you rolled it under the cylinder.

Below is a crude illustration of what i’m describing.

So you’d ink your form, drop this coaster holder (kind of like a frisket I guess) into your lockup, drop your coaster into the hole and pull the print.

Maybe there’s already something like this and i’m reinventing the wheel but I just thought I’d have to do something like this if I wanted to do individual coasters on my proofing press.

Thoughts?

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Keith,

Check out this blog on Poco’s http://pocoproofpress.blogspot.com/

Dennis

yeah. I’m a contributor on that one.. though I haven’t been very dilligent in contributing. lol.

*bad keith*

I did see the frisket and tympan setup but I was thinking of something more specific to coasters only that you could set aside in a drawer when you’re done.

or am i missing somethign on there?

I’m going to see what I come up with on this because now I want to print some coasters for the bar in my basement. haha.

I really like these guys coaster stock,
http://www.holyokedirect.com/ , I like this better than the Katz stuff.

seems like you get 100 from holyoke for $16 or 1000 from katz for $25

is it that much of a difference to justify the cost? I mean, technically these will mostly be thrown away after use.

just wondering since i have no idea what either is like.