![]() ![]() That said, any work I’ve ever done on the L has made me love my Pilot(s) more. The Epic is loud and parts fall off because it’s all cheaply made and not for hard work. Like using a very small, slightly efficient (there’s a grid! that comes off when you clean the thing!) proof press, you ink each run by hand (ask Boxcar to send you the edges of all plates you order so you can use them like bowling gutters to keep your brayer level when you ink a plate). I’m a graphic designer and have made business cards, invitations, and notecards on the L. I also use letterpress ink and not the yucky ink sold for the L. ![]() I followed Boxcar’s “tweaks” by securing the base, buying a Speedball roller, and using photopolymer plates instead of the crappy Lifestyle crafts plates. I have printed on the L for several projects, some of which have turned out awesome. Collecting printing presses is going to turn me into a crazy press lady, which I find more favorable than collecting cats.) Pilots are a step up from a gateway drug because now all I want is a proof press and an 8x12 to call myself “content.” (Is there such a thing? Probably not. We now own two Pilots, one of which is still in need of serious TLC. It was, to use the phrase loosely, my gateway drug though I had very limited letterpress experience in university. I’ll go put on my tinfoil hat and hide under the couch now. I’m not sure anyone would have experience with them here, but if anyone does, I’d really appreciate any thoughts! But I can’t seem to find any writeups or reviews from people with any merit to comment on how it works if you are coming from a letterpress background (how difficult is it to use boxcar plates, can you use actual ink with it, etc). The Fuse looks a little more heavy duty and it’s bigger so I could pull larger prints. I read Boxcar’s writeup of the L Letterpress but I haven’t seen much discussion on the Fuse. So….knowing full well that it’s blasphemous, that I won’t get the quality I’m used to doing it for real, and that it might actually be more effort/time to get decent prints….can anyone provide any opinion on the craft tools out there? I’m looking at the Epic L Letterpress and the Fiskars Fuse system and trying to figure out what might be a better option. Now I’m missing it and wishing I could do little projects, but don’t have the flexibility or time to go to a studio with the little one, so I’m looking for options I can do at home without the need for the space or upkeep a press requires. Unfortunately times have changed and I now have a 2 month old baby, moved to an area where I can’t easily get to a studio, and sold my Pilot because I needed the space for the nursery and didn’t have anywhere else to keep it, and didn’t have the time I used to have to press. I started printing renting time on Vandercooks and “graduated” to owning a Pilot. I’ve been a very amateur printer for the last 5 years, just for my own enjoyment. ![]() I am certain I’m going to get flamed for even asking this question here, but hopefully I can get a little slack :) ![]()
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