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Typorama, Bischofszell, Switzerland
FAG Control 405
Paul Wirth on the FAG Control 405 ‹We use this press quite often at Typorama for small editions of prints. Just now we're planning a small Knigge-Series in 5 volumes in an edition of 30 booklets each, 32 to 48 pages each.›
FAG Control 405 at Typorama Bischofszell, 2013
About this press
Serial number
Originally delivered to
Ziegler, Winterthur
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.
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 Typorama
Typorama is a working typographic letterpress and hot metal composition museum. With a typesetting departement, a big machine composition collection from the 19th and the 20th century and and a printing departement Typorama is preserving and encouraging the use of letterpress technique.
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FAG Standard 505
Paul Wirth on the FAG Standard 505 ‹We got this press in 1983 from the «Maschinensetzerschule» in Luzern. We are in the process of setting up a section to teach children to typeset at Typorama. This is where we're gonna use this press.›
FAG Standard 505 at Typorama in Bischofszell, 2013
About this press
Serial number
9722
With current holder since
1983
More info about the press
Other presses at this studio
About Typorama
Typorama is a working typographic letterpress and hot metal composition museum. With a typesetting departement, a big machine composition collection from the 19th and the 20th century and and a printing departement Typorama is preserving and encouraging the use of letterpress technique.