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The mahogany platen has hung from the hose with a series of 4 knots, tied with string.

Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.

Video of the Uncommon Press in action, with narration explaining how it works.

Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectric engineering student from Olympia, WA., holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016.

Diagram of the Uncommon Press with parts labeled.

An image of an English wooden common press found in Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works: began January 1, 1677.

An image of a Stansbury style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.

An image of a Smith style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.

An image of a Washington Press, manufactured by Cincinnati Type Foundry

An image of a Wells style Acorn press.