Job & poster printers · Fremantle · est. 1962
A working press, open to anyone with clean-ish hands. Compose a poster in wood type, lock the chase, and haul the lever — the Vandercook does the rest. Every sheet comes out slightly wrong, which is to say: yours.
Step up to the bedThe form reads backwards. It will print forwards.
Set your lines, then lock the chase.
0 / 8 good pulls91 cases · wood & metal
Ninety-one cases, sorted the way the last printer left them in 1987. Grotesque No. 9 for shouting, Antique No. 4 for selling, Tuscan Ornamented for the circus. Mind the California job case — lowercase lives where your hand already knows, which is why nobody's allowed to tidy it.
Vandercook SP-15 · 1963
Cylinder, grippers, two form rollers, and a bed that holds type at exactly .918 of an inch — type-high, the one measurement in this shop nobody argues about. She came up from a newspaper basement in Kalgoorlie on the back of a wool truck, and she has never once missed a Saturday.
Posted above the sink
Ink goes on thin; you can always pull again. Quoins tighten opposite corners first. Spoiled sheets go on the line, not in the bin — make-ready is how the press teaches. And the last one out oils the rails and turns off the safelight we don't need but keep anyway.
Specimen pulled on the SP-15, dry cream stock, kind inking. The faces you'll find upstairs in the cases.
Nothing hung yet. The line takes eight — a full edition. Pull one upstairs and bring it down wet.