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Glengrant said:Well G scale Graphics looks very good, a bit far away from me of course. .....
Postage for a 1 or 2 ounce letter is quite reasonable. And as this forum proves, distance is not a problem.
Glengrant said:Well G scale Graphics looks very good, a bit far away from me of course. .....
At last. It's a 1922 MAN rotary press, the blue paintwork was the giveaway, for the rest I was right.pugwash said:Could be a double broadsheet, prints 4 folios at a time, still an early newspaper machine.KeithT said:Oops and I thought it might have been an easy one.pugwash said:At first hand no, all I can see is that it is a web fed machine with apparently two printing units, the size of the reel makes me think newspaper (broadsheet) and there is a centre stack (as opposed to being at the other end of the machine) that centre group, plus the folding bars atop make me think it's a recto/verso single pass (which again fits in with the broadsheet) and the whole style of the machine says Heidelberg. I would be interested to know how the printer got the ink in the duct without pain and misery (note the later addition of an emergency OFF button);KeithT said:You would recognise this then?
I am NOT a printer.
Aargh, missed a couple of basics, it's rotary, and almost certainly a plate machine. Hmm. Dunno, could also be an early Augsburger.
The second, prettier, picture is Heidelberg.
Perhaps these help, and the town is Mainz........
Not much, it's as I said an early rotary letterpress machine, plate, and I take it back - it's not a Heidelberg as they didn't make these machines . The gutenburg museum in Mainz, gawd I can already smell the ink.
I'm interested in what the bottle of water and pail were for...
OK I take your pointDel Tapparo said:Glengrant said:Well G scale Graphics looks very good, a bit far away from me of course. .....
Postage for a 1 or 2 ounce letter is quite reasonable. And as this forum proves, distance is not a problem.