#printing

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

On April 27, 1791, Samuel Morse was born. Morse developed in the 1830s what became known as Morse Code, the primary language used in the transmission of messages using an electric telegraph machine.

The telegraph, using Morse Code, is intimately tied to the development of Sacramento starting in the 1850s. In 1854, the Alta Telegraph Company built a telegraph line between Sacramento and Nevada City. Other lines started to connect Sacramento to other cities in California. On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was transmitted to Sacramento, ending the Pony Express overland mail service two days later. California was finally able to receive news from the east coast within hours rather than 10 days by the Pony Express.

Construction of the transcontinental telegraph line began July 4, 1861 in Missouri. The nearly $500,000 project was largely made possible by the passing of the Telegraph Act of 1860. The telegraph made Sacramento the hub for communication between California and the eastern United States. California newspapers became more up to date on national news as well.

For today, Jared typeset SACRAMENTO in 36 point Cheltenham Bold Italic font. Luckily, the typecase had enough dashes and periods. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.

[jaubaius]

Time-lapse of a 3D printing process of an articulated dragon

[cuprumbao]

linocut!

[sakrafka]

made this in university printing course with a like 200 years old printing machine

[chalkrub]

another linocut i forgor about

[fishfingersandscarves]

i'm excited to show dream's board book for To Be Brand New by @dsudis for @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang (dream's helm lenses are made with reflective paper! so irl you can look at yourself on the page)

link to the high rez illustrations

[houghtonlib]

Oops!

It's not uncommon in early printing for a book to be produced out of order, or on more than one press simultaneously. Printers were skilled at estimating how many pages a manuscript would make as a printed book in order to keep the pagination consistent, even if page 53 was already done when it came time to print page 52. The system, however, was not infallible, as seen here.

Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Theoriae motus cometae anni 1664. Rome: Fabius de Falco, 1665.

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[thetidemice]

my paleo inspired monotypes 💞

[palaeosinensis]

So this project has been coming together nicely. See below the cut to see how the whole printmaking process went and hear me yak about it!

What started as a sketchbook idea was traced over, refined, flipped, transferred to some easy cut lino, carved, and then today we did some test printing! The first two are the proofs that came out first on dry paper. The second pair of proofs are on dipped paper. The third pair are on misted paper. I used some Bristol smooth because it's what I had lying around. I've also got some sheet watercolor (Either Arches or Winsor+Newton) but I haven't tried it yet. I used Speedball fabric oil-based ink. I feel like I need to go pick a printmaker's brain because it's been a decade since I did this and I don't remember what papers we used among other things. I now also need to figure out if my blotchiness is technique, if it's paper, and whether or not I would benefit from a small lever press. These were burnished with a combination of spoon and thunder egg brayer. Yes I said thunder egg I am just that unintentionally metal. It's like a sliced open geode except it's smooth agate instead of crystals so it's shaped very perfectly for what I needed today.

[free-my-mindd]

[attico36]

Matchbox Design for One Shot Third Edition. Event in Santeria, Milan 20th May 2023. Tickets on dice.fm More info on Polism.co

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We have officially reached a viewership level that has never been obtained by another museum before! All of us at the Sacramento History Museum are in disbelief.

We would have never thought that our institution, a small nonprofit museum in Sacramento, California, could reach this many views, but we are incredibly thankful for all of those who take the time to watch our videos and for your support.

In this video, Howard letterpress printed a headline announcing “Sacramento History Museum Reaches One Billion Video Views On YouTube” while using our Washington hand press, which was manufactured in 1852!

[buboplague]

あけましておめでとうございます

cards this year were either all black, or had silver accents

some day I’ll get the hang of printing these.... this year was not that year

[netherworldpost]

can't sleep

must make production memes

[rthwrms]

from da archives!!!! a screenprinted zine i made <3

[chimeracauldron]

Some recent lino carving and printing attempts