Printing Paper Bags on our Printing Press
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2022
- Did you know that when you shop at our Museum Store, there is something special about the paper bag we place your purchased in? Our paper bags are printed with our Museum logo and contact information using one of our historic printing presses. This is also the same for the paper bags at the Sacramento Visitors Center at Second and J Streets in Old Sacramento!
In this video, Howard prepares our Chandler & Price jobbing press for a press run to print 100 large paper bags for the Visitors Center. Stop by our Museum Store when we’re open and take home a printing souvenir when you shop!
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I've never seen one of these in action, this TH-cam channel is a fantastic find. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! We have other press run videos too!
Freaking love this channel so glad I found it
@@jaxnebcharfski2863 same
I'm hooked. I'm gonna visit if i ever happen to be in Sacramento
I could watch this all day. This is what TH-cam was meant for. So thrilled to have found this channel. Love it.
I'm so glad I discovered this channel, I'm not a fan of using TikTok, but I do like watching channels grow on TH-cam and I think this channel is going to catch like wildfire. I'd love to work in a place like this, the atmosphere is so soothing
Oh wow! This is incredible! Thank you so much for showing us!
Nostalgic. When I was in middle school at Narayanganj, Bangladesh, we had a press shop near to my school. They had this similar machine which used to run by an electric motor. Otherwise, all other controls are same. I used wait for my ride at press shop and see it working. The press people were very nice though ❤
Such a craft! Purity between man and machine!
what a peaceful and smooth sound, lovely printing press
Takes way less ink than I thought it would
I love those old machines who work without modern technology.
I love this so much! The only way it could get any better is if there was a small stationary steam engine (or an early combustion engine) driving it all. But looking at the flywheel (and the fact that there's a foot pedal), I don't think that this was designed to be driven by an engine. Although it would definitely be very cool.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into these videos!
Thank you for watching! This press was specifically designed to be foot powered but small motors came about decades later.
How many can you print before you have to apply new ink?
So happy to have come across this channel especially since I am a 5th generation Californian from Bolinas ca. Also I would like to mention as a female there were few Press Operators back in the late 1960s when I was hired to run AB Dick and a Multilith 1200. Thank you again for all the history you have come across.😊
I absolutely love watching these videos: the guys take such pride in their work and enjoy what they do.,it's an experience worth watching. Keep up the good work, guys.
You guys are so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the kind of stuff I love to watch so I hit the subscribe button really quick. To be honest if I had a small company and I could find someone that knew how to work that type of machine I would do the same thing.
Excelentes máquinas y mucha dedicación en su trabajo
Felicidades
He is so strong
that’s really cool
What an amazing machine
This is super cool....though the whole video I was getting increasingly worried about Howard getting his hand pressed.
How often would peoples hands get stuck in between the parts? Seems like there are lots of spots for it to happen
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Howard 💪💪
If I make it back to Sacramento, I will have to locate you museum
I haven't used this equipment in over 50 year
Just and fyi, I know a gentleman in the Seattle are that has a lot of type, and presses
Fantastic! Quick question, why do you do globs of ink rather than a big swipe across the plate?
It’s all about evenly distributing ink on the ink disk. Quick dabs of ink is Howard’s preferred method.
Can someone explain why the ink disk is designed so. Why couldn't the rollers just go over a stationary plate? Is it a matter of easy distribution of ink?
This is amazing careful with your fingers alright hit the red button
Is that an ink fountain at the top? I never saw one in use on our old C&P. We just "painted" the ink on like in the video. 👍
It looks to be, but that would be for runs in the thousands (or tens of thousands across shifts) where downtime is your worst enemy, as is often the case in factory work. Seeing the five digits on the counter I assume this machine is meant for runs that size.
@@totally_not_a_bot Yes. I would hate to imagine hand feeding that giant "pac-man" 😄for eight hours and beyond. Your down time would be operator fatigue and the amount of paper you can stack on the feed side or receiver, would take two people just to run it in that constant fashion. Plus, this one is foot pedal operated. Ours did have a huge electric motor in back which turned a belt on the fly wheel. My Dad could run it at top speed, probably 1.5 seconds per impression. Not me! I was young and kinda scared of it. Dangerous stuff. Requires your full attention, no slip ups or last minute adjusments, or reaching and grabbing. The brake would be of no use. 👍 Oh yeah, I remeber now there was a vacuum system to feed the press as well, but we usually hand fed ours, it was cool watching it work as well along with all the noise and release pressure sounds. What a time it was. I guess 45/50 years now. I gettin' old.
@@NObucketLIST I do recognize your concerns from running a similar press before my birth was an idea. However, I present a strategy currently used by a corporate manufacturing facility I recently worked at:
Stagger lunch (30 minutes) so you can swap back and forth between stacking pages and feeding them every hour. Whatever keeps the flywheel spinning. Overlap shifts by five minutes with a monetary penalty for being late and you have peak efficiency. Give the guys stools and free coffee if that's what it takes. It's good enough for a corporation to avoid Department of Labor citations. Good enough for a company some decades before motors were a thing, as per a comment from the museum :)
@@totally_not_a_bot For more modern printing needs, I think we can be thankful for the arrival of the offset press, and ofcourse now high speed copiers and thermo printing methods. We have definitely come a long way. I am out of the loop anymore for sure. 👍 Take care!
@@NObucketLIST Honestly, I'm glad that hypothetical grindscape I described isn't neccesary in the frankly dangerous world of letterpress printing anymore. Only poorly managed corporate jobs. And defintely shoutout to digital typesetting. I don't envy the days of marking up with a pen for term papers, then trusting yourself and the typesetter to get it right first go. Enjoy life outside the rat race and take care yourself 👍