Since I used Weiss bold and regular, a serif font, they have two different surface areas which affects the clarity of the printing. Bold has MORE surface area and it was over inking. On the drum, you add packing – basically different thicknesses of paper to ‘cushion’ and raise your desired paper to best meet the face of the text.…
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inked in black!
I’m exhausted and way behind schedule. However, last night, Addendum got its black. All 225 sheets. Compare the resolution of printing between wednesday (click on the image to see the messy ‘halo’ around the letters. and don’t be distracted by the double print, i was just saving paper): and Thursday Here is that delicious moment, when, your pile is almost…
trimmed and registered!
When I started at the Center for Book Arts, the first piece of equipment I saw was not 1 but 2 large board shears. They are incredible. Apparently, Paul Brubaker comes 1x a year with tools to square it up… Here are some of the sheets with deckled edges (I chopped 2 sides off so I could register the multiple…