502045
St.Joost School of Art and Design, Breda, Netherlands
FAG Control 525
About this press
Serial number
With current holder since
20+ years
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
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About St.Joost School of Art and Design
The printroom at St.Joost School of Art and Design is equiped with 3 FAG proof presses, a FAG offset press, etching presses, riso printers and silkscreen facilities. An elaborate type collection is available to the students as well.
stjoost.nl ↗
OFFICINA HELVETICA, Biel, Switzerland
FAG Control 525
About this press
Serial number
16855
With current holder since
2016
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
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About OFFICINA HELVETICA
Verein mit dem Ziel die Handwerke des Buchdrucks und der Lithografie lebendig zu erhalten, auszuüben und weiterzugeben.
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Miriam Grech-Cumbo, Johannesburg, South Africa
FAG Control 525
About this press
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
BRO / Cylinder sheet brush, adjustable, clears cylinder automatically as grippers pass to release sheet.
MR / Micro adjustable bed movement with clock indicating accurate height in fractions of thousands of an inch. Height is measured directly off table.
MVA / Cylinder drive with motor, STEPLESS SPEED ADJUSTMENT. Automatic cylinder return with time adjuster for sheet delivery.
SAM / Safety device for motor-driven machine.
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Le Solitaire, Alizay, France
FAG Control 525
About this press
Serial number
03.06.024
Originally delivered to
Jacques Soumagne SA, Chambray
With current holder since
2005
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
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About Le Solitaire
Grafička radionica ABAco, Nova Gradiska, Croatia
FAG Control 525
Kristijan Abramovic on the FAG Control 525 ‹The press is located in Nova Gradiska, Croatia, at our printing shop named ABAco. We imported it from Osterreich in 1993 and use it since then.›
About this press
Serial number
03.06.061
With current holder since
1993
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
BRO / Cylinder sheet brush, adjustable, clears cylinder automatically as grippers pass to release sheet.
MR / Micro adjustable bed movement with clock indicating accurate height in fractions of thousands of an inch. Height is measured directly off table.
MVA / Cylinder drive with motor, STEPLESS SPEED ADJUSTMENT. Automatic cylinder return with time adjuster for sheet delivery.
SAM / Safety device for motor-driven machine.
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About Grafička radionica ABAco
Although we are digital printing shop equipped with modern printing, cutting and other finishing equipment, my father is oldschool graphic designer/printer and loves to use old machines that he started bussines with, so occasionally we use FAG Form for printing & proofing artistic posters or other exclusive printing materials and sometimes also for creasing.
abaco.hr ↗
Matijevic Blister, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
FAG Control 525
Dusan Matijevic on the FAG Control 525 ‹This press is used for cutting plastic sheets. We bought it in June 2013 from our friend. Before us, he used it for graphic printing.›
Grippers have been removed on this press.
About this press
Serial number
03.07.005
With current holder since
2013
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
MR / Micro adjustable bed movement with clock indicating accurate height in fractions of thousands of an inch. Height is measured directly off table.
MVA / Cylinder drive with motor, STEPLESS SPEED ADJUSTMENT. Automatic cylinder return with time adjuster for sheet delivery.
SSL / Quick action lock up bar, to block mounted plates and composition on machine bed.
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About Matijevic Blister
We make plastic packaging of all kind, for example food.
Tehniški Muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia
FAG Control 525
Martina Orehovec on the FAG Control 525 ‹This is our FAG printing press from the collection of the printing department in Technical museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana.›
About this press
Originally delivered to
Delo Printing Company, Ljubljana
With current holder since
1999
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
BRO / Cylinder sheet brush, adjustable, clears cylinder automatically as grippers pass to release sheet.
MR / Micro adjustable bed movement with clock indicating accurate height in fractions of thousands of an inch. Height is measured directly off table.
MVA / Cylinder drive with motor, STEPLESS SPEED ADJUSTMENT. Automatic cylinder return with time adjuster for sheet delivery.
SAM / Safety device for motor-driven machine.
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About Tehniški Muzej Slovenije
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
FAG Control 525
Pickstone Edwin on the FAG Control 525 ‹The press is part of the Caseroom Letterpress Facility used primarily by students of the Communication Design Department but is available for use by any student at The Glasgow School of Art. This press is the most used in our collection, primarily to print wood and metal type but also laser-cut materials, photopolymer, 3d printed objects, lino and woodcuts, collographs and anything else that can be made up to type height!›
03.06.056 at Glasgow School of Art, 2014
The press from outside the brand new building in 2014.
DAS – Split steel rider unit for 2 colour work.
About this press
Serial number
03.06.056
Built/delivered in:
1975
Originally delivered to
Glasgow School of Art
With current holder since
1975
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
DAS / Split steel rider unit for 2 colour work.
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About Glasgow School of Art
The Caseroom houses the school's large collection of wood and metal types, Columbian Press, Western proofing press, 13 x 18 Heidelberg platen, Risograph and a variety of binding and finishing equipment.
gsa.ac.uk ↗
edition carpe plumbum, Leipzig, Germany
FAG Control 525
Thomas Siemon on the FAG Control 525 ‹I use this press regularly for small editions of wood and linocuts. Especially with woodcuts the adjustable bed is helpful.
I had quite some trouble with the electrics of this machine the old relais seem to be the problem. After cleaning them it works fine.›
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control 525
About this press
Serial number
0305003
With current holder since
1999
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
AR / Automatic cylinder return with time adjuster for sheet delivery. (This setting is advisable for orders of Cylinder drive MC.)
BRO / Cylinder sheet brush, adjustable, clears cylinder automatically as grippers pass to release sheet.
MR / Micro adjustable bed movement with clock indicating accurate height in fractions of thousands of an inch. Height is measured directly off table.
SAM / Safety device for motor-driven machine.
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About edition carpe plumbum
Carpe Plumbum is a workshop for letterpress and relief printing, located in the “Spinnerei” in Leipzig – a former Cotton factory that now hosts artists, designers and galleries. In the workshop hundreds of typecases and several presses (from 3 FAG proof presses to the 70x100cm “Präsident” Cylinder press) offer varied possibilities for printwork. I work together with artists and designers, printing cards and small editions, as well as larger editions such as posters and books; for example all the original graphic LUBOK books are printed here. See www.lubok.de for more.
carpe-plumbum.de ↗
Druckwerkstatt, Lenzburg, Switzerland
FAG Control 525
03.07.012 at Druckwerkstatt, 2012
About this press
Serial number
03.07.012
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
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About Druckwerkstatt
druckwerkstatt-olten.ch ↗
Hand & Eye Letterpress, London, United Kingdom
FAG Control 525
Phil Abel on the FAG Control 525 ‹The press is used on a near-daily basis, for taking proofs of hand set material for scanning and emailing to customers, taking galley proofs of machine set material from the Composition caster, proofing and correcting interns' setting, and large jobs, or short runs that would otherwise need to be done on the Heidelberg SB cylinder press. Phil started using the FAG in 1992, when Hand & Eye was on the premises of Barnard & Westwood, but bought it outright from them in 2007.›
About this press
Serial number
05.03.037
Originally delivered to
Barnard & Westwood Ltd, London N1
With current holder since
1992
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
SSL / Quick action lock up bar, to block mounted plates and composition on machine bed.
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About Hand & Eye Letterpress
One of the very few remaining jobbing letterpress printers in the UK, Hand & Eye was started by Phil Abel in 1985, equipped with an Adana 8x5, an Arab treadle platen, a passion for good printing and a pile of typographic journals. The presses are long gone, but the passion remains, and he hopes that we continue, in a small way, the legacy of great twentieth century printers like the Curwen Press. As well as providing a high quality service for our customers, we also print and publish our own fine book editions, and occasionally make our own posters and ephemera. For estimates, sales & enquiries, email phil@handandeye.co.uk.
handandeye.co.uk ↗
R.B. Typolab (BfGZ/ZHdK), Zürich, Switzerland
FAG Control 525
R. Barmettler on the FAG Control 525 ‹We bought this press in the year 2000 from FAG Lausanne for 464.40 CHF. We originally used to run this press as a semi-automatic press, but since the fusion of the workshops we modified it to be hand-cranked for use by our undergraduate students.
After undertaking serious and systematic concept and design development work, we use this press for poster jobs up to the size of 50x70cm. We also use it for invitation cards and artistic experiments.›
16842 at R.B. Typolab in Zurich, 2012
Handcranked instead of power driven cylinder.
Former electrical controls that now have no function anymore.
Serial number on the side of the pressed. (The model plaquette has been lost with this press...)
About this press
Serial number
16842 MI
With current holder since
2000
Equipped with
LAR / Automatic wash up device incorporated in special drawer, lever operated ductor blade.
ME / Two speed power driven inking system with ink drum. Normal speed for printing. Acceleration for ink distribution and wash-up.
BRO / Cylinder sheet brush, adjustable, clears cylinder automatically as grippers pass to release sheet.
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About R.B. Typolab (BfGZ/ZHdK)
R.B. Typolab (BfGZ/ZHdK) is a university workshop based in Zürich. It arose from a fusion of two workshops (Werkstätte f. Typographie und Buchdruck BfGZ / Typowerkstatt HGKZ, today ZHdK) in the year 2000. Rudolf Barmettler uses this workshop as an introduction to typography for first year students of the Visual Communication Department (ZHdK) as well as for interdisciplinary typographic induction weeks of the Department of Design (ZHdK). Additionally he has been been teaching an evening workshop (40 evenings a year) for over 10 years now. BfGZ teacher René Wäger and Gilde Gutenberg teach Polygraf aprentices in the second year. In the workshop there are about 650 cases of lead type, wood type, bakelite type and magnesium type. Besides the 3 FAG proofpresses there there are other pieces of equipment that include a Vandercook Uni IV (Serial 21477), a Heidelberg Platen press, a Giez platen press, some waxing machines, a FAG heavy duty saw trimmer and some more... Rudolf Barmettler's students mostly produce business cards, invitation cards, flyers, cd-covers, book-covers, posters and poster series, calendars, poetry books, magazines, proofs and lots of printing experiments.