Found Type Friday #34

It's been a few weeks now since Randy first sent me some pics of this stuff. Sorry it's taken so long to get them on Ace Jet Randy - I've got a bit of a backlog.

He explains what they are, "Those aren't drawers! They're actually boxes and boxes of lead type sticks. My girlfriend's dad actually builds hotstamping machines so he bought 2 machines off ebay and repaired/furbished/oiled them and they're good as new."

I've seen hotstamping before of course but wasn't so familiar with the precise term. There's a good explanation on Malahide's website: "The industrial printing process that we call 'Hot Stamping' goes by many synonymous names including: foil stamping, hot foil stamping, gold stamping, gold blocking, dry stamping, dry printing, embossing and imprinting. What sets the hot stamping process apart from any other method of printing is it's ability to apply a shiny metallic foil print. A brilliance that cannot be duplicated with ink, foil stamping is employed in a diverse range of consumer and industrial applications."

The Kinsley machine looks fantastic; I want one and for anyone else interested, have found a user manual here.

Many thanks to Randy for the contribution. If anyone else would like to take part, please email me here.

Comments

[Kath]

The printmedia shop at my university has a letter press and the room it's in is covered in badly-printed wedding invitations and littered with lead type. it's a very cool room.

[The Worst of Perth]

I'd love to have a foiling machine. I don't know what i'd do with one, but...