Relief Printing on an Etching Press

I’ve updated an earlier post dealing with the challenge of printing relief on an etching press. Printmaker Maria Arango Diener suggested using discarded rubber blankets from the commercial lithography industry to use on your etching press for cushioning between the steel rollers and the woodcut or wood engraving block instead of cardboard. The post is [...]

Printing Relief Blocks on an Etching Press

I don’t own a massive old iron printing press that I covetously see in some studios and campuses, like the famous Albion Press for example or better still – a Vandercook proofing press. Although it would be great to add one of these to my studio, for now I use my etching press very successfully [...]