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Hi everyone, I didn’t grow up in a print shop (but I went to press checks in footy pajamas with my father) so I have no idea what these are or what they’re used for. Could someone please identify?
Thanks!
Matt
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Hi everyone, I didn’t grow up in a print shop (but I went to press checks in footy pajamas with my father) so I have no idea what these are or what they’re used for. Could someone please identify?
Thanks!
Matt
Hardwood Planing blocks, for planing down type formes during lock up, usually leather backed, and accompanied with a fairly small mallet.
When you have setup all your type etc in the chase. You lay these planing blocks on top and tap with a mallet to make sure it’s all seated flat and level. That’s my layman’s explanation
In the book “Printing on the Iron Handpress”, Author, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds describes making a blind or dry proof by laying the paper onto the un-inked type and gently pressing the paper onto the type by using a leather backed type-plane and a small leather mallet. I am paraphrasing
here, but you get the idea. A quick proof without ink, impression only. A thick sheet with high moisture content would help.