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🖨️ English Platen Letterpress: Toggle Press, Ink Film and Impression Pressure Lab

Set the type, ink the forme with two rollers and pull a postcard on a cast-iron platen press: a crank-rocker toggle turns a small flywheel torque into a large impression force, the paper and frame compress, the ink film splits at every nip and the printed density, squash and deboss are graded.

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Set the type, ink the forme with two rollers and pull a postcard on a cast-iron platen press: a crank-rocker toggle turns a small flywheel torque into a large impression force, the paper and frame compress, the ink film splits at every nip and the printed density, squash and deboss are graded.

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