I wanted to link the ancient tradition of hand printing with modern technologies, so I decided to use 3D printing. I just couldn’t resist to the romantic charm of the story.Īs reference I used the glorious British Adana 8x5, a letterpress sold from the late Fifties. Moreover, some of them were used during the Second World Wars by Italian partisans to print anti-fascist propaganda. They are reasonably small and lightweight machines, very easy to operate and maintain. They have an impressing array of letterpresses, platen machinery and other really interesting presses.Īnalyzing the compact platen letterpresses, I realised that would be a good design to consider. The great idea came after I visited the Typographical Museum in Lodi, a lovely town just south-west from Milan. But it wasn’t really interesting in my perspective, as it relied on a massively produced hydraulic press, one that you can buy for cheap online. This design could be simply achieved with a metal frame and a bottle press. My first thought went to this primitive press mainly because it is structurally simple: you have a big press, operated by a lever, that squeezes a big sheet of paper on a matrix, previously inked with some sort of rollers. The initial concept was quite simple: analyze Gutenberg’s press, scale it down and build it with wood.
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You can find an extended version of this Instructable in pdf following this link: Adana3D Furthermore, the cliché is designed on a computer and printed with modern 3D printers, hence the name. The machine is built with concrete, nuts and bolts. I wanted to link the tradition of manual printing with current technologies. This manual letterpress, as the name can suggest, was inspired by UK’s famous manufacturer Adana.
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