Printing, was: Re: [Scriptoris] peerage patents

[Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio]

We could go over to Shamino's and borrow his Gutenberg Printer. ;)
*duck*

Elaine Crittenden said:
> At the risk of getting some static, here comes the teasing---
>
> A couple of years ago, I attended an exhibition of printing done on
> a
> 1450-Gutenberg-style reproduction press. All the typeset letters
> were
> printed with space left for illumination to be done by the artisan
> of each
> buyer of that Bible. (Note I said "Bible" and not "historical
> document.")
>
> Sometimes, a second color, red, was printed on the page after the
> black had
> dried, they said and demonstrated. No other colors, they said at the
> museum
> exhibition.
>
> If Kinko's or a laser printer is "out," and you don't happen to have
> a
> Gutenberg press in the corner somewhere (giggle), you possibly could
> use a
> silk screen printer from Japan called "Gocco." It comes in sizes for
> small
> scrolls and typewriter paper-sized ones. BTW, the thing can be set
> up to do
> several colors at one "press," providing there is some space around
> the
> color change areas, say, a quarter of an inch.
>
> The larger Gocco printer runs, new, about $600. The smaller one is
> nowhere
> near that and is the first one I bought, years ago, pre-SCA. (I
> later
> got-cheap!-the large one at a garage sale "from someone who didn't
> know what
> they had," she said, smugly.) Finding the ink could be a problem if
> you
> don't have a distributor in your area, though.
>
> If Gocco is the way you want to go, what's to keep from doing
> erasable
> registration marks and using the smaller silk screen Gocco to do
> areas of a
> larger sheet?
>
> Actually, I'm in the shadows with Mistress Serena, giggling about
> the "much
> ado about nothing," since the fru-fru we do on awards wasn't done in
> Period,
> anyway. It seems to be no more Period than xeroxing!
>
> As Serena has said before, (God bless her!) important documents
> weren't
> decorated at all, if you don't count cadled letters done by the
> scribe.
> (snicker, giggle) The fru-fru pages were in books, usually Bibles or
> Psalters.
>
> And, again, with Serena's past statements in mind, no one would
> probably
> know the difference, or care much for the Authenticity Police's
> stamp of
> approval, anyway. It just has to look nice in the frame...  ;-)
>
> (Besides, I think fewer people would check the back of a printed
> piece than
> the number who look at the back of embroidery, with framed work
> solving both
> problems, anyway. ;-DDD )
>
> Lete, still amused by it all...
>
> ----------
>>From: Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>
>>To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."
>> <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] peerage patents
>>Date: Thu THFeb 10,2005,7:42 PM
>>
>> --- Diane Rudin <serena1570 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> But period printing would be interesting, although I doubt the
>>> kingdom could
>>> tell the difference.
>>>
>>> --Serena the Cynical
>>>
>> Depends, I think on how it was printed, via lithography or with a
>> letter
> press.
>> If heavy pressure is used the letter shapes are almost embossed
>> onto the page,
> and
>> you can certainly tell it was a printed page.
>> There is a new printers group started up at:
>> scapnt at yahoogroups.com
>>
>> And a few of us have had some experience at printing - me, very
>> little
>> letterpress, but via a
>> guild at the Museum of Print History in Houston (note to self -
>> must do
>> that again), and Lyonette
>> of Steppes does printing professionally on etched plates
>> primarily, I
>> think, rather than
>> letterpress.
>>
>> Cheers, Hillary
>>
>>