This has been a lovely gift of getting hold of a flat-bed press (though having described the Quarto as the love child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, I can’t un-see that). There is no way I could have printed this on my clamshell presses short of embedding the whole forme in shellac.
October 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM
This has been a lovely gift of getting hold of a flat-bed press (though having described the Quarto as the love child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, I can’t un-see that). There is no way I could have printed this on my clamshell presses short of embedding the whole forme in shellac.
Wow, that's great! Vandercook, here we come??
October 28, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Wow, that's great! Vandercook, here we come??
I have been hoarding paper cutoff bits like a gremlin and now I am making biz cards with them heheheheheh. CACKLING at all who thought I would never use them 🫵🏼 (me at myself)
October 26, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I have been hoarding paper cutoff bits like a gremlin and now I am making biz cards with them heheheheheh. CACKLING at all who thought I would never use them 🫵🏼 (me at myself)
Want to see an Adan Quarto in action? Of coruse you do!
(It occurred to me while printing today that this could reasonably be described as the bastard child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, and I’m not proud of that observation, but also it’s not wrong?)
(It occurred to me while printing today that this could reasonably be described as the bastard child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, and I’m not proud of that observation, but also it’s not wrong?)
October 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Want to see an Adan Quarto in action? Of coruse you do!
(It occurred to me while printing today that this could reasonably be described as the bastard child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, and I’m not proud of that observation, but also it’s not wrong?)
(It occurred to me while printing today that this could reasonably be described as the bastard child of a Vandercook and a tortilla press, and I’m not proud of that observation, but also it’s not wrong?)
Like if a vandercook and a fajita press did the nasty! 🤭
October 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Like if a vandercook and a fajita press did the nasty! 🤭
#behindthedesk for holiday craft show prep: freshly printed wrens, a stack of trimmed deer and more paper, boxes of cards waiting for stickers. There's a lot more going on in here once the printing gets done! #letterpress
October 23, 2026 at 9:26 PM
#behindthedesk for holiday craft show prep: freshly printed wrens, a stack of trimmed deer and more paper, boxes of cards waiting for stickers. There's a lot more going on in here once the printing gets done! #letterpress
The Lost Issues of Margo Dean by Louis X. Nichols
https://mixcache.com/catalog/3927/the-lost-issues-of-margo-dean
https://mixcache.com/catalog/3927/the-lost-issues-of-margo-dean
The Lost Issues of Margo Dean - A Reconstructed Biography by Louis X. Nichols
They found her archive in a freezing Gowanus storage locker: forty cubic feet of brittle paper, a two-thousand-pound Vandercook press, and a lifetime of comi...
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October 24, 2026 at 7:28 AM
The Lost Issues of Margo Dean by Louis X. Nichols
https://mixcache.com/catalog/3927/the-lost-issues-of-margo-dean
https://mixcache.com/catalog/3927/the-lost-issues-of-margo-dean
Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's students from ENGL 4459: Language Models Small and Large. The students made a couple of visits to RBS to view items from our teaching collection and to learn about printing. Here they are displaying their creations.
October 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's students from ENGL 4459: Language Models Small and Large. The students made a couple of visits to RBS to view items from our teaching collection and to learn about printing. Here they are displaying their creations.
From Project Gutenberg:
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22095
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22095
October 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM
From Project Gutenberg:
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22095
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22095
The shop is tidy and ready for Open House Chicago this weekend, 10-5. Come for the history, stay to nerd out about it all, including this 1962 made-in-Chicago press that’ll be cranking out prints.
October 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The shop is tidy and ready for Open House Chicago this weekend, 10-5. Come for the history, stay to nerd out about it all, including this 1962 made-in-Chicago press that’ll be cranking out prints.
I printed this test (verrry carefully on a Vandercook given paper thinness) back at Penland in July, but didn't get to try lighting it until now. Final will have more exact cuts, no paper/tape overlaps, etc. but now I know what to expect from paper opacity & floral wiring.
October 10, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I printed this test (verrry carefully on a Vandercook given paper thinness) back at Penland in July, but didn't get to try lighting it until now. Final will have more exact cuts, no paper/tape overlaps, etc. but now I know what to expect from paper opacity & floral wiring.
Prints are up from my quest to made continually create larger printers fists 👉 (pointing hand printing blocks). I edited a historical image, lasercut in bamboo, mounted typehigh, & printed with red-orange-purple gradient ink on a Vandercook printing press earlier this summer:
Need a (giant historical pointing) hand? 👉 These 🌈 letterpress printers fists are ~16" cuff to fingertip & beyond Art are good for your "don't forget your keys", "watch that step", "look at my dog's training diploma" needs: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/very...
October 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Prints are up from my quest to made continually create larger printers fists 👉 (pointing hand printing blocks). I edited a historical image, lasercut in bamboo, mounted typehigh, & printed with red-orange-purple gradient ink on a Vandercook printing press earlier this summer:
Need a (giant historical pointing) hand? 👉 These 🌈 letterpress printers fists are ~16" cuff to fingertip & beyond Art are good for your "don't forget your keys", "watch that step", "look at my dog's training diploma" needs: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/very...
October 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Need a (giant historical pointing) hand? 👉 These 🌈 letterpress printers fists are ~16" cuff to fingertip & beyond Art are good for your "don't forget your keys", "watch that step", "look at my dog's training diploma" needs: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/very...
From Project Gutenberg:
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8662
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8662
September 28, 2026 at 6:15 PM
From Project Gutenberg:
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8662
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Margaret Vandercook
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8662
"To the computers all aspects of the word other than information are 'noise.' But we are not computers. We may not be very bright, but we are brighter than computers." -Ursula K. Le Guin. From my August artist residency; handcut craft foam=inexpensive way to add color+shapes to a print, as w/this ☀️
September 26, 2026 at 12:17 AM
"To the computers all aspects of the word other than information are 'noise.' But we are not computers. We may not be very bright, but we are brighter than computers." -Ursula K. Le Guin. From my August artist residency; handcut craft foam=inexpensive way to add color+shapes to a print, as w/this ☀️
King library press wayzgoose! Made this poster on the vandercook press
September 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
King library press wayzgoose! Made this poster on the vandercook press
Exploring what's possible on a small tabletop Provisional Press. I will always be a Vandercook floor-press printer (mostly for the paper grippers on the tympan cylinder feeding sheets, rather than hand-placing on inked stuff*), but maybe I could manage less complex prints w/a larger showcard press +
Fat Bear Week... year-round? 🔵 Made a Quick GIF of my pulling the 1st pass of a work-in-progress print on a Provisional Press (small tabletop cylinder press) #DHmakes
September 24, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Exploring what's possible on a small tabletop Provisional Press. I will always be a Vandercook floor-press printer (mostly for the paper grippers on the tympan cylinder feeding sheets, rather than hand-placing on inked stuff*), but maybe I could manage less complex prints w/a larger showcard press +
I did make choices to not do things with this print I would have done, on a Vandercook, due to extra effort needed—eg more passes to print a background large O to emphasize a large underwater body shape (the text tries to hint at that in spread); doing all the coming tiny text as part of 2nd pass
September 24, 2026 at 6:33 AM
I did make choices to not do things with this print I would have done, on a Vandercook, due to extra effort needed—eg more passes to print a background large O to emphasize a large underwater body shape (the text tries to hint at that in spread); doing all the coming tiny text as part of 2nd pass
Added joy: able to make something from home!
Added complications: lack of leading (narrow line spacing) making blocking slow; have to place the paper right on the inked type the first time 😬; oddly more physically tiring than the Vandercook
Added complications: lack of leading (narrow line spacing) making blocking slow; have to place the paper right on the inked type the first time 😬; oddly more physically tiring than the Vandercook
September 24, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Added joy: able to make something from home!
Added complications: lack of leading (narrow line spacing) making blocking slow; have to place the paper right on the inked type the first time 😬; oddly more physically tiring than the Vandercook
Added complications: lack of leading (narrow line spacing) making blocking slow; have to place the paper right on the inked type the first time 😬; oddly more physically tiring than the Vandercook
"Rigor is bullshit & you know it". From my 🎨 archive, partner to my fave journal article I've published ("Speculative Design for More Just & Joyful Scholarly Futures" journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/6020). 🧵+
September 23, 2026 at 4:37 AM
"Rigor is bullshit & you know it". From my 🎨 archive, partner to my fave journal article I've published ("Speculative Design for More Just & Joyful Scholarly Futures" journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/6020). 🧵+
3 S Vandercook Lake [Jackson Co, MI] Public reports Rain of 3.00 Inch at 4:10 PM EDT -- Storm Total through 4 PM.
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September 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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I bet there’s way more of us.
Happy Type High Day, my people.
@folger.edu has a printing press and connections to game designers. What might we do in combo?
Happy Type High Day, my people.
@folger.edu has a printing press and connections to game designers. What might we do in combo?
September 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I bet there’s way more of us.
Happy Type High Day, my people.
@folger.edu has a printing press and connections to game designers. What might we do in combo?
Happy Type High Day, my people.
@folger.edu has a printing press and connections to game designers. What might we do in combo?
I have a vandercook universal 1 in my garage and it’s only a matter of time until I print an RPG zine on it
September 18, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I have a vandercook universal 1 in my garage and it’s only a matter of time until I print an RPG zine on it