Late Nite Printing

Peter Rukavina

“Time to dry” is one of the significant limiting factors when you have just five days of press time, especially when multiple layers are involved.

Yesterday, late in the day, the box design evolved to the point where we knew we needed to print solid colours on all the boxes before we slept.

Which is how we found ourselves, ‘round midnight, mixing ink and printing boxes, in the ancient mill building that houses the flatbed press.

The timestamp on the photo of the bell tower I took on my stumble home is 1:26 a.m. A long day, with much accomplished.

A flatbed press with two lino blocks set up to print a solid silver colour.
An ink mixing table with silver ink being mixed.
A blurry photo of a bell tower at night.

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