The New Year will bring exciting new equipment to Publicide's print capabilities! I've just ordered a new roller set for the Heidelberg Windmill along with the glorious and amazing Rider Roller. This item is sure to become indispensable to printing on the letterpress. It adds a third ink roller on top of the two form rollers to fight ghosting and put more ink down at one time.
After inventing a new technique for double inking the rollers to make up for the lack of rider roller, I discovered that this technique had already been invented and even had it's own video on YouTube! I didn't make up a snappy name for it but luckily someone else has—it's called "Skip Feeding". Which just goes to prove that everything is already known about letterpress printing, it just needs to be rediscovered or unearthed.
Thanks to these great sites for helping me ascend ever higher into the firmament of letterpressing:
Excellent prices on new and used Heidelberg Parts at: Printers Parts 4 U
Excellent blog for letterpress tricks with cool online store: Spark Stationery
