This is the first drawing of various press arrangements.  At this stage, we were still looking at a basic square base frame, which was soon to change.  There was the choice of making a table top press (option 1), but I much prefer free-standing presses as I do not like the inking area to be anywhere near the printing area.  The free-standing press also allows for the potential of storage shelves underneath.  Note option 3, with the crew exerting pressure from underneath.  This design was put forward by Maurice as a question of turning things upside down, and for ease of printing (and saving the printers knees and back), the pressure was decided to be exerted from above.  Also, it would be all rather messy and confusing to have to place printing plate on top of paper, on top of blankets, so we decided to stick withe the classic method!