Letterpress And Photopolymer Printing

The Art of Letterpress:

Letterpress is a beautiful relief printing process where a raised inked image is heavily pressed against paper to create an impression. Because letterpress is a hand process no two pieces will be entirely identical and small variations in the inking, colour and position are to be expected. These Practical workshop courses explore traditional and modern letterpress techniques using both Albion relief press (1870) and Arab Platen Press's (1900)
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Letterpress course 1; An introduction

Two Day Weekend workshops

A practical course introducing letterpress techniques, using lead type and image blocks. You will use both the Arab platen and Albion press to print your own type setting using traditional techniques.

You may also be interested in the photoplymer workshop, making your own letterpress designs.

Letterpress course 2; Using photoplymer plates

Practical 2 day course exploring Photoplymer plate making for letterpress.

You will learn the techniques and processes to make your own photoplymer plates, how to fix them on to blocks for type height printing, followed by printing your blocks on both the Arab platen and Albion press's