Power of the Presses

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#letterformarchive #bima #art #museum

https://lukedorny.com/updates/power-of-the-presses

Book crafting has been living in head non stop ever since i've read my first fanfiction novel. I just had to have certain works on my bookshelf and so i did This project began with scoring a second-hand inkjet printer for just 8€. The Epson stylus SX235W is old but it still works just fine. I have working ink cartridges for it too, so it is just a matter of refilling them with ink and resetting the chips, and i saw many offers on local marketplace where people sell old ink cartridges for pennies so the whole operation should be inexpensive at worse

(part 1 of my bookbinding project)

RISO astronauts! I made 30 copies, in 2 colors :-)

Love the niche-ness of Mastodon. Thanks to the wonderful people I follow from completely different walks of life, I now know about a #Print / #Printing and #Typography book on kickstarter that sounds right up my street https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-of-type-and-printing?ref=thanks-copy
#Bookstodon

HEY #BikeMap ENJOYERS

Had to drop some packages off and found out the UPS store in Kenmore has large-format printing in-house and it's rather more affordable than FedEx.

They do 40lb paper ($5/sq ft), glossy ($6/sq ft), and vinyl ($8/sq ft) and canvas (didn't ask).

That's not worlds-of-difference cheaper but it is better and since UPS stores are franchises not corporate-owned it's not at all UPS stores. But it's at the one in Kenmore.

Custom Art Framing, a

Since I'm fully retiring from my semi-retired part-time job (2 - 6hr days/wk) at the end of the month I thought I'd frame several items for myself while I can still get an employee discount.

I invite you to join me for the ride!

This is the chop room where we chop the molding legs to size. I'm chopping in-stock molding. Black looks best with B&W photos & is also inexpensive. 1/12

I sketched this out yesterday and dreamed of crows last night. The last linocut I made was in school.

Also this morning I learned there is a Tag der Druckkunst on March 15th. (Day of print art https://www.tag-der-druckkunst.de/ )

Let's showcase our #printart on this day on the Fediverse too!

#TagDerDruckkunst #TagDerDruckkunst2025 #linocut #printing #legoprint #brickprint #Linolschnitt #MastoArt #KleineKunstklasse #siebdruck #radierung #screenprinting #printmaker
#wip #crow

Do you regularly print documents from DEVONthink, maybe even multiple documents at once? Then we have a nice little trick for you. #devonthink #printing #macos https://buff.ly/vj3ypT5

A part of the board showing different print techniques... this one shows results of "Kitchen Lithography", a fun and easy technique! #printing

Fun type design and labor facts:

1. The first US design patent was a typeface patent.
https://typographica.org/on-typography/copyright-protection-of-typefaces/#comment-1418735

The US denies copyright protection for typefaces, but not font software (for now… https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/65603/#Comment_65603).

Foundries may be able to protect a type design with a patent, and a typeface name with a trademark.
https://www.commarts.com/columns/fonts-and-the-law

Printed it out now! : P

This is the first pose, took a while to get it configured properly, then print it, then edit, then print again haha. last one was a success, gladly. Gonna check again and see if I can possibly get a better result from supporting it better, possibly.

BUT! This is the pose 1!

It's for a 25mm base,

Pose 2 incoming eventually.

Now, I'm working on the spotter!

@3dprinting #madewithblender #resin #wargaming #miniature #blender #art #wip #artistic #tabletop #printing

Now Printing…

Hadn't tried this on Watercolor paper on the new 7570 printer. Yes. I did a small one, and I think I'll do it large also on the watercolor.

Hand The Book Across Time

https://www.xenofact.com/2025/03/05/hand-the-book-across-time/

Tariffs are going into place, but we print everything ourselves. Not sure the origin of the paper or ink we buy, but hoping it's in the USA. Gonna try my best to keep our prices the same as they are now.

Would be happy to hear about recycled paper or eco-friendly ink suppliers based in the USA, especially if they're union/employee owned shops.

Print of The Month: Red Remnants
https://dariosoleraphotography.it/2025/03/potm-red-remnants/

playing around with re-scaling my maps from the public drops

rescaling is just saying "j0, 300 DPI file, you have the same number of pixels but it's 200 DPI now" so 200 DPI is like 50% bigger and 150 DPI is 100% bigger when printed and...

...on a modern printer, 200 DPI is... fine? Like, actually fine? Not as good as actually rerendering but fine. 150's not too bad either.

100 DPI breaks it, but oddly, going all the way down to 72 DPI kind of brings it back around again, because yeah, the words are fuzzy but they're so big it doesn't matter.

So if you just wanted Bigger Map you could easily cut it to 200 DPI and print on a good printer and it would be _fine_. 150 DPI would be okay. Not amazing, but okay.

I’ve been in the #printing business my entire life. Thankfully I never worked for HP (I have worked for two of their biggest competitors, and neither did shit like this)

@pluralistic points out that HP charges 10k/gal or so for ink. I’m in a position where I know the actual cost of that ink - and holy f is this just basically larceny. Profit margin WELL over 90%.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/