Using the studio: facilities
The printmaking studio has equipment for water-based screen-printing, etching/intaglio, relief printing, fabric printing and photo-etching.
Screenprinting
- Large exposure unit for photo-silkscreens (130 × 180cm)
- Four vacuum tables (max print size 125 × 85cm)
- Large rubber-topped fabric printing table (120 × 245cm)
- Various sized squeegees and coating troughs
- Various-sized screens (for hire - max size 125 × 85cm - price list)
- Back-lit wash-out unit for screens
- Drying racks
Etching and relief printing
- Etching press (90 × 140cm printable area)
- Etching press (75 × 115cm printable area)
- Tofko etching/relief press (100 × 180cm printable area)
- Albion relief press (27.5 × 40 platen size)
- Ferric chloride dip-tank for copper (max plate size 40 × 100cm)
- Nitric acid etching unit for zinc only (max plate size 50 × 60cm)
- Rosin aquatint box
- Hotplate
- Exposure unit for photogravure/photo-etching (60 × 70cm)
- Guillotine for cutting metal plate (max width 77cm)
- Etching grounds, solvents and varnishes
- Large and small rollers
- Spatulas and ink knives
General
- Lightbox (100 × 150cm)
- Rags and newspaper
- Cutting mats and rulers
- Goggles, masks, gloves and ear protectors
- Reference materials and books
Available from our shop
- Copper and zinc
- Lino
- Scrim
- Black etching ink
- Limited range of System3 inks and medium for screenprinting
- Specialist papers including Somerset papers
- Grained mark-resist film
- Newsprint and acid-free tissue
- Screenprinting photo-emulsion
- Pencils and small brushes
- Economy etching needles
- Masking tape
- Buff tape
- Economy etching needles
- Scalpels
The American French Tool Company etching press at the ELP studio