[rollei_list] Re: OT: Re: Rollei Digital (Junk)! Windmill Presses

It is thrilling to know that there are still guys making money with
copy cameras, and that we have list members with substantial
experience on the Heidelberg and the Speedmaster, both playing
prominent and important roles in the history of the 20th and perhaps
the 21st Centuries...

Eric Goldstein

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On 1/18/08, ERoustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's still a few guys left here shooting film of comps and then
> running offset presses. Some technologies take a long time to die -
> if ever. I get offered a copy camera about once a year... It's
> tempting to have a camera that takes up a room.
>
> Now comparing offset and letterpress is like film vs. digital. A safe
> machine with automated moving parts hardly exists. The Windmill is
> one of the safest platens, but as John Christiansen of the Firefly
> press in Cambridge once said, "It would take your arm off and not
> even slow down." So really, the idea is to run it while keeping your
> arm out of it, which isn't that hard to do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Elias
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