This was wonderful!! It gave me a deeper understanding of how my antique books were made and a much deeper appreciation for hand printed books as a whole. Thank you!
Great video! I Thoroughly Enjoyed your Introductory Walkthrough of the Letterpress Process! Question: Where are you getting the statistic 240 sheets per hour from? As far as my understanding allows, 60 - 100 impressions per hour was considered good work. If you're counting quarto impressions then yes, 60 x 4 to accomplish 240 printed pages is an achievable hourly goal for a team. As for 240 unique impressions, I can't imagine that working out but I'm really interested to know where you found your statistic. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Keep up the brilliant work!
If the verbiage in the story you were printing required more space for type than the chase allowed, I suppose you could possibly truncate the story somewhat just to get the main points across OR…. CUT TO THE CHASE…. Oops, that term wasn’t used until silent movies in the 1900’s Probably would have more sense to most folks except…in silent movies nobody cared about the story when they could just watch the cops, robbers, cowboys, and Indians chasing each other around.
