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An image of a Wells style Acorn press.

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

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

An image of a Tufts style Acorn press.

Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.

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

The Uncommon Press team worked in the engineering machine shop to fit, assemble, and oil components of the press, before the final assembly in the Wallace Library. Here the tympan is being attached to the coffin.

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.

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.