In my various letterpress adventures I’ve been trying out some different inks and paper combinations.
I have a ‘standard’ forme I use for testing the papers and inks…which I’m sure you’ll see popping up as I experiment.
One of the inks I’ve really liked so far is this metallic mid gold
Inked rollers
Inking the forme
Ink on glass
Inked forme ready to print
Print operators view
Final result (printed twice on same card)
It’s particularly good on red paper
Since getting my Adana 8 x 5 I’ve been accumulating bits and bobs of kit.
You don’t quite realise some of the things you might need to be able to do projects.
Type obviously. But also hand rollers, inks, glass to pre roll ink, cleaning kits, spacing stuff, paper and so on and on.
Here’s a peek inside the the IKEA filing cabinet that the Adana lives on top of…
Some mixed wooden type
Type and plates
Metal type (sooo heavy)
Chases and quoins and spacing stuff
Inks
Hopefully soon I’ll do a list of where to find…..