Selling the Vandercook 14 Proof Press
I’d like to make a little room here in the studio (in Brooklyn, NY) so I am selling the 14 Proof Press. It’s a beautiful hand-inked cylinder press with an enormous press bed (17 5/8” x 25 1/2”) for the footprint (2’7” x 3’9”) and weight (750lbs.). It can print on sheets of paper up to 17 3/8” x 25”.
It’s on skids and in great shape. I can get it to street level for you, but you’ll have to take it from there. $1200 OBO.
Printing on the C&P
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Here is a video of me operating the C&P in the mess that was the studio about a year ago. I am printing one color of one side of a postcard. And as you can tell from certain possibly NSFW segments, treadle-operated platen presses are potentially the most erotic of printmaking apparatuses.
Edit: It’s not the size of the press, but the motion of the pressman.
Couldn't Be More Jazzed
Long time friends, Elizabeth and Ian, just got married. It’s awesome. Printed a poster to offer my congratulations. Wood type. 12×22 inches.
New Years Drink Menu
This is just a little handset poster for the New Years party we threw here at the building. It was printed on the Vandercook 16907 at around 2 in the morning on Sunday. Looking at it now, the poster should probably read “red or white wine” (we weren’t serving blended Rosé).
That last line isn’t exactly NLP, but it was close enough.
Vandercook #16907
This versatile little Vandercook 14 proof press is the second press I moved here into the studio. It’s a little dirty, but it’s in good shape and is a work horse. The serial number, 16907, places it as having been manufactured in 1954.
It’s not self-inking and it has been largely boxed out by the SP15 I am moving in next week, but for the footprint (2’7” x 3’9”) it has a huge print bed (17 5/8” x 25 1/2”) and can print on sheets of paper up to 17 3/8” x 25”—which is awesome if you want monoprints or if you have the time to play around with registration and inking.
The press weighs about 750 lbs, but one person can shove it around fairly easily.
