Today, I printed the first print on my new Takach press. Well, to be honest it's on indefinite loan not really mine, but it's as good in that I get to use it. It's a table top Takach, but will accommodate up to a 30" x 22" paper, and anything much bigger than that I can print at work.
The move was not quite as epic and demanding as I had expected given that the press is mostly aluminum, so it was doable for only two or three people to move it, though very heavy. My boss helped us move it out of Josephine Press, and then my partner (Jason), my friend Tim Musso and I moved it up into my loft. Luckily, we have a freight elevator in our building.
Our cat, Mulcifer, immediately inspected the new addition to his domain and found it satisfactory.
The first print, a wee little linocut of a bat, is something I could
also have printed on my other press, a wee tank of a thing that has
served me well in the past, but I really wanted to get started on the
Takach and not put it off until I had something really impressive to
print.
The bat is printed on Arches 250 cover with rubber based ink, and paper size is 5" by 7", and I watched Poirot on Mystery! the whole time.
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