LANSTON TYPE | HEIDELBERG CYLINDER PRESS

¶ GERALD GIAMPA'S personal press. It had perfect rollers, and it was never used by anyone other than himself.

John B. Frame, the engineer, decided to show off in front of Jim Rimmer and Clifford Burke nearly breaking his arm with the throw off lever. Nothing like a little training.

Giampa used car wax on the machine.

This view is the feed board and delivery end of the machine. The operator spends much of his time standing on the left on this end inspecting the sheet on as they are drawn on to the delivery board.

Giampa had planned to install a remote controlled ink duct. The large wooden Hamilton Stone is shown on the left of the picture with the sloping vertical chase holders.

Chase; a steel or cast iron frame which is put around the printing forme and the spaces around it are filled with 'furniture' and locked up with 'quoins', (Forme; Type, plates, engravings, wood cuts etc.) The chase is used to transport and or hold the type in the press while printing. Sometimes formes where made up directly on a press. Some times even without a chase. That method is called 'bed-locked'.

Other times, such as on a proof press, a type forme could be secured merely by tying with string. Some proofs were pulled directly from a printers stick.

The Heidelberg Cylinder Press is not a proof press, they are the ultimate in high production letterpress machinery. That matched by quality unsurpassed by any other press manufacturer.