Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Covering the Tympan of the 1902 Albion Handpress

I have rather neglected the large Albion press recently. It was a question of making time to cover the tympan; there was always something else that I had to do.

Finally, I needed to print from some larger blocks and so I could delay no longer. Here we go...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Good to see the Albion in action. Bit worried that the platen does not seem to be square to the tympan. Needs adjusting??

Claire & David

Tony Drehfal said...

Thanks Andy,

I am finally getting time to recover my tympan and this video entry is a marvelous resource - thanks. I will recover mine with heavy brown paper like you did on this video, but do plan to try a smooth natural parchment hide someday in the future.
As my tabletop Albion's tympan is so relatively small (compared to yours), my parchment costs will be manageable.