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...parts walk that fine line between charming and chaotic,” Russem says. But Jacoby, Sifuentes, and other volunteers have been working hard to get the press in working order. All four of the printers should be online in the next two weeks (although the 19th century clamshell platen press is too delicate for daily use) and days were spent cleaning the front and back room of the press. It was an epic task that, by all estimates, hasn’t been attempted in 15 years. “The dust was as historic as Harvard...
Katherine S. Wong ’07 knows the difference between a Vandercook press and a pearl platen. As the undergraduate press master at the Bow and Arrow Press, a student-run printing facility tucked under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple...
...shop has expanded over the years to include four presses, which inky-handed undergraduates can use on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. One is a galley press used for printing quick proofs. Two are larger, standard presses. A fourth is a clamshell platen press used for creating small items such as cards and invitations...
According to Vetters, this brand of clamshell platen press is no longer produced, and the Bow and Arrow’s is “probably over one hundred years...
...typewriter is entirely different from machines we are accustomed to see. It consists of a tray of about 500 Chinese characters, a printed sheet or indicator showing the position of the various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction...