\nPANTONE Translucent White 75.0%<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLaying out the globs of ink.\u00a0 The ink is like taffy, and not very tasty.<\/p>\n
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I have 1\/4″ glass plates used for mixing inks and set the plate on a scale with a 500 gram weight so I could approximate in grams a batch of ink consisting of 10 grams.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this analog scale does not have the precision of 2 decimal places, so I’ll have to procure a digital so I can be more precise is measuring the inks according to the percentages specified by Pantone.<\/p>\n
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Am I close to #7407 U[ncoated]?<\/p>\n
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I fired up my letterpress.\u00a0 First I have to set the lead type and then place it in the letterpress’s chase:<\/p>\n
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Then I perform a test print on paper towel:<\/p>\n
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After the impression:<\/p>\n
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Here are two runs:<\/p>\n
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Clean up is a bitch, you have to clean and clean and clean.\u00a0 And with Naptha… sigh.\u00a0 Cleanliness is godliness in letterpress work.\u00a0 You can still see a yellow tinge on the glass plate as well as a smudge of yellow ink that did not get mixed in.<\/p>\n
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I have a table top Sigwalt Ideal #5 which has a 6 x 9″ chase size.\u00a0 I also have a 2,000 lb + dangerous<\/em> Kluge monster (3 phase) with a 10 x 15″ chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In November, 2025. ironically a day before my birthday (unbeknownst to the donor), I was given two books that were illustrated by Gorey. The present was wrapped with high quality wrapping paper… paper good enough to be book binding liner, a white ribbon, a beautiful note card with a readable handwritten note, a print-out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,97,95],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-etiquette","tag-gorey","tag-letterpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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