platen press

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Type is hand set, and these pages of thick Domestic Etching stock were fed through a treadle-operated 1920 C&P platen press.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010

The boy begins as a pressfeeder, usually on a platen press, and in the course of time gets to be a platen pressman.

From Wage Earning and Education by Lutz, Rufus Rolla

The inking mechanism was similar to that employed on the bed and platen press, but the mechanism for forcing the ink through the slit in the bottom of the fountain was improved.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

Evidently Jackson believed that his new chiaroscuro method required heavier pressure than the platen press was capable of.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob