Nothing much to report of the printing side, I’ve been working on some new designs so haven’t really printed much in the last few of weeks. Last week on a rainy saturday I decided to try printing with my little Adana upstairs in the apartment instead of working down in the garage. Wow, I actually thought with the experience I’d gained on the larger press that it would be easy now on the Adana but was I wrong! Even though I’d leveled the platen and checked the roller height I was still getting heavier printing on the bottom than the top - everything was uneven no matter what I did. Perhaps I gave up too quickly though thinking it was going to be easy.
Anyway, thought I’d post a link to an old Chandler & Price for sale on ebay. I’ve been watching it since it was listed and after much consideration have decided not to bid - for one the price has jumped so much over the last day - maybe a little too much? The problem is there are so few for sale in Australia I think the price of them has become quite inflated. Secondly - I just don’t have the room for it! I don’t think I realised how small my little Hogenforst press is compared to a Chandler & Price! 400kg compared to a 1-1.5 tonne monster!
So for the time being I’m going to stick to the little guy and master him first, I’m realising the limitations of a smaller press but I’m designing around them now, no large designs, keep everything small and simple - which luckily is what my style of designing is!
