We are often asked about how we clean our equipment in our print shop after letterpress printing. We use 1K kerosene as a solvent to clean the ink off of the press, letterpress cuts, and type.
In this video, Jared demonstrates cleaning the 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. This was after a press run using purple oil base ink to print some greeting cards.
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