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letterpress III, Part III

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A long but fruitful evening spent printing the last part of our little book of quotes. My printing partner Jason and I spent most of the time perfecting our complicated lock up and adjusting the tight alignment and registration. We printed three of our pages all at once using a brown ink we mixed on press. It was a long set up, but a satisfying print run once we got it perfected. The class ran way over the allotted time, so we hardly had enough time to put our type back in the cases let alone clean the press. We weren't able to print covers and bind the books as we'd hoped. I'm going to attempt the japanese binding this afternoon, time permitting. I'm have to teach myself how to from diagrams...fingers crossed that I'll figure it out.

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