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Category Archives: Printing and Printing Processes
Landa avoids financial failure
In my last technical analysis of the Landa press, I mentioned that the company had gone to the Central District Court in Tel Aviv to seek bankruptcy protection. Facing about $500 million in debt, they hoped to prevent total failure … Continue reading
Thin lines and fine type
This is the fourth in a series of analyses of the output of the Landa S10P press. If you would like to start at the beginning, click here. Whenever a printer gets out a magnifying glass, there are bound to … Continue reading
Printing high-resolution line art on the S10P
Update: I have been reading about financial troubles at Landa. The company has asked for protection from its creditors in an event similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. With over $500 million in debt, the company hopes to … Continue reading
Not printing colors that the press can print
Note: Landa recently announced a new version of their press, the S11P. The most significant difference is speed. Where the presses I have tested print 6,250 two-sided impressions per hour, the new Landa press can print at twice that speed. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Color Management, Graphic Arts people, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Color profiling a Landa press, Landa Nanographic printing technology, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator
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Exploring the capabilities of the Landa S10P press
I recently finished a year teaching at Cal Poly. I retired from that institution in 2020, and was rehired last year to fill-in for a colleague on leave. The course I taught was Color Management, which I had taught for … Continue reading
Failing to profile a direct-to-garment T shirt press
At Printing United last year I visited the Aeoon Technologies booth, where I met Austin Thom who runs a business in Oregon printing digital images on T shirts with one of these machines. I was dazzled by the quality of … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology
Tagged Aeoon, Aeoon direct-to-garment, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, direct-to-garment, Direct-to-gilm printing, DTG, Inj-jet printing T shirts, The Blognosticator
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The Smyth book sewing machine is an extraordinary device
For over five years I have been working to restore a 1935 Smyth book sewing machine. You can read several posts on that topic here, mostly related to the mechanics of getting the machine running after a long dormancy, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bookbinding, Building things, Gadgets, Printing and Printing Processes
Tagged Blognosticator, bookbinding, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, how a Smyth book binding machine works, how the Smyth machine binds books, Shakespeare Press Museum, Smyth book sewing machine, Smyth bookbinding machine, Smyth machine, The Blognosticator
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The Linotype and Intertype catalogs
In the previous post I described how I published these out-of-print booklets. These are links to the PDF versions of those publications. Please feel free to download them.
Posted in Gadgets, History, Printing and Printing Processes, Restoring antique printing machines, Technology, Typography
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Intertype matrix, Intertype matrix catalog, Linotype matrix, Linotype matrix catalog, Shakespeare Press Museum, The Blognosticator
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Gliding into a saw restoration
This is Part 2 of my story about restoring an antique Hammond Glider “TrimOsaw” for the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. To read the first part, click here. I got to the point of removing the aluminum nameplate from … Continue reading
Restoring that ol’ saw – a Hammond Glider
Now that the Smyth machine is working, I decided to take on a new project. Last fall I offered to restore a 1960s era Hammond Glider TrimOsaw for the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. This machine is best described … Continue reading