Quote Originally Posted by ThatCluelessGerman View Post
Yeah, these are powerful and dangerous.
The tech school had about a dozen 'hand platens' which involved using one hand to place the card whilst the other was removing the printed one before the platen closed...mind boggles how lax safety was back in the '70's.

The platen I ran was equipped with a foil stamping and I printed millions of these. (the gold part)

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cheers, Mark.