Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Riddle me this revelry-makers...


What weighs 3500lbs, is covered with 75 years of oil and automatically feeds itself?




Our newest press!



Every year around January 1 millions of people resolve to lose weight and do more with their lives.  We salute you fine (if unoriginal) folks for making that pledge.  But here at the Isle of Printing - we decide to buck the trend by doing less and cumulatively weighing more*!  After all this is the 21st century right?  If a press wants to feed itself paper... why not let it?  If a press decides to print that paper and stack it up in a neat pile...who are we to say no?  We don't hate robots here AND we love letterpresses - so why not plug a press into the wall and do a little jig as it rocks back and forth?

WE SAY YES to the Kluge! (that's Kluge like a lugee - not like fudge or luge)

The Kluge Automatic job press - if you think 1901 is modern - then you will be surprised with what the future has in store for you in letterpress technology! 

Old doc Kluge is not quite ready for duty yet but he's looking pretty good for an old iron beast (and former largess paper weight). 

Many more chapters of this saga are still to come.  Slanderers beware.  Children with curious fingers beware.  Stacks of loose paper beware! 

Rub a dub we are fixing you up!
Happy 2011

H Kneesch

*as a print shop with an auto-feeding letterpress

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

can't seem to reach us via email?

Things in the internet land are a bit screwy right now. so.....
Try isleofprinting(at)gmail.com if you need to get through!

thanks
MGMT