If it’s not too late I’d love to participate! Marit Bockelie, The Bremerton Letterpress Co. Bremerton, Washington. 🙂 

Thanks Andrea! I appreciate the input. Great advice. 🙂 

HI Mary – Are you attending the LoL conference this year? If so let’s meet up and talk shop. I’m still working full time, but my letterpress business is taking off and I’m in the middle of a transition myself.

Thanks,

Marit

Sounds great! Thanks for your number, I just sent you mine too. I’ll be able to chat later this week. Let me know a good time to call. 

🙂

Hello there!

I’ll be in the area the same nights, flying into DesMoines from Seattle Wa on Wednesday. Do you want to pick me up and we can share gas from DesMoines to Mt Pleasant? Maybe split a room with the other woman looking to roomshare on Thursday through Sat?

Feel free to call me at
(360) 620-8967.

Talk soon!

Marit

Thanks Julie – Yes, my email is actually maritbockelie@gmail.com. 

I plan to stay Wednesday through Saturday night, but it still might work out to share a room. Let’s keep in touch!

Marit

Hi Julie – Lets keep in touch about accommodations for the conference, I’m curious to find out if there’s anyone in the local printing community who is planning to host out-of-towners, but if not I’m down to do some hotel room sharing with you. My number is 360-620-8967, or email marotbockelie@gmail.com.Thanks for reaching out!Marit

Good morning! 
Sounds like you already got some great advice. I’ll just add my two cents in case it helps shed a little more light on the problem you’re having.

I have had this too-much-ink-on-the-outside-of-the-line problem in the past as well. I usually run my text parallel to my rollers, but it can happen with running text perpendicular to the rollers too.  My printing mentor at Day Moon Press (doen’t use photopolymere and) often uses what she calls rails, type-high leading off the edge of the printed page, to basically hold the roller rubber at the same height across the surface of the printed text. This is seems to work slightly differently than just raising your rollers. Because you are using photopolymere, you can’t add leading, but you could perhaps add some height by using old spare photopolymere to get the height needed, as Kelly suggested below. The main problem I’ve found with trying to just raise the rollers is that the center type doesn’t get inked well, but I don’t know if this will happen with adding photopolymer outside the printing area – because I haven’t tried it! 

I’m curious to know how you solved the problem for this project – and I’d love to see how the finished product turns out! 

Kindly, Marit

I’d love to get involved for the the next go round!

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