platen press

His tasks went beyond newspaper layout to include letterpress work and the restoration of an 1897 Challenge Gordon platen press at a museum in Braddock.

And don’t even try to compare the lifespan of the reasonably new Konica Minolta copier to the 125-year-old Chandler and Price platen press it shares floor space with.

Once the type was cast, it had to be set letter by letter into the presses: a 1965 Heidelberg Platen press and a 1970 Vandercook proofing press.

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

To go back to the early part of the nineteenth century, when Koenig found his bed and platen press impracticable, he immediately set to work, assisted by one of his countrymen, Andreas Bauer, a mechanic who had helped him formerly, and in the latter part of 1812, the first flat-bed cylinder press was erected by them in Bensley's office.