I'd set it up on the desk in my bedroom and feed a couple of sheets of paper down behind the platen roller. |
Strangely I feel this too with the early poems, a sense of deliberation, you can almost hear the typewriter keys hit the paper on the platen. |
The paper bail holds the paper down on top of the cylinder, or platen, that it's wound around. |
The pressman pulled on the bar, causing the platen to press the tympan on the inked type and taking the impression. |
All these prototypes were shaped into panels of various commercial thicknesses with a steam-heated platen press. |
You can lay your shirts flat without a platen or palette inside, or you can make a cardboard or chipboard platen to stick inside. |