[GreenKeys] Typesetting Perforator, 6 Level Equipment, etc.

[Jim Cooper]

On 20 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> In high school, I had a couple
> offset presses: A Multilith model 80
> and a Multilight model 1250. There's
> a video of a 1250 in operation at
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5kK
> iQFrh0 . Note that this shows color
> printing. The 1250 did just one
> color at a time, so this was possibly
> the fourth pass through the press. 

wow ... what a small world and what a diverse 
group here !!   Guess what ...  in high school 
and college I had first a Model 80 and then 
a Model 1250 offset press myself !!  I used 
them to print the NJ Army MARS Newsletter 
(which I wrote, edited, published, mailed, etc!) 
as well as most of the ads for B V E Enterprieses, 
which was my Teletype and surplus 'stuff' business 
at the time.   Looking at those printed pages now 
they look really crude ... but they were still better 
than the purple Hectograph I started out with.  ;)) 

And guess what, squared ...   I still have both of 
those presses ...  they have not been run in decades, 
though.  I used to use PAPER plates for short runs, 
such as the MARS newsletter ...  I actually found a 
way to run the paper plate through a Xerox copier, 
and the toner worked to grab the ink.  For longer runs, 
the Vocational Print shop teacher would burn an 
aluminum plate for me (his shop was right next to 
my Vocational Electronics shop in the high school). 

Anybody want an offset press ??  !!

w2jc