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UV printing is a way of digitally printing onto a variety of surfaces. The ink is cured by UV light in the printing process.

You can print onto a wide variety of surfaces including:

Paper

Plastic

Metal

Fabric

Found objects

Book covers

Our UV printer has an adjustable bed so it can be flexible with the thickness of the item you are wanting to print onto. The maximum thickness is 15cm. The maximum bed size is A2.

To use the UV printer you MUST complete a consultation with a technician, as there are many things we will have to check, test and prep before being able to print. You will be working 1-1 with a technician as this is a complicated machine and not a click and collect service 🤠

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Access our online induction for drypoint here

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Access our online monoprinting induction on Panopto here

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Access our Online Embossing Induction on Panopto Here

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Induction to the Relief Printing Room: W303

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Induction to the Relief Printing Room: W303

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The induction will include:

Linocut: cutting and printing a block or plate onto paper and instruction on how to set-up and print using the relief presses.

Embossing: cutting a card plate for the purpose of embossing/debossing on paper including instruction on how to use the embossing presses.

Collagraph: how to make and ink a collagraph plate.

The induction will be in part practical with demonstrations and examples of work shown.

Please see glossary of printing terms below:

Relief Printing: is a type of printing where a printing block or plate that has had ink applied to only its surface is pressed into paper.

Linocut: also known as lino is a printmaking technique, similar to woodcut, in which a sheet of lino is cut into. Everything you cut away doesn't get printed, everything you leave, does.

Embossing/debossing: are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs on mainly paper. An embossed pattern is raised against the background, while a debossed pattern is sunken into the surface of the paper.

Collagraph: is a printing plate in which different materials are glued and stuck to a rigid substrate like card.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 4 hours

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Induction to the Intaglio printing Room: W306

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Induction to the Intaglio printing Room: W306

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The induction will include:

Drypoint: A physical process of scratching/creating indentation into a cardboard/plastic plate and printing using the etching presses with an introduction to inking and colour mixing.

Etching: A way of creating drawn line on a metal plate that uses a wax ground and acid. Inking is the same in all areas of Intaglio.

Aquatint: A way of creating tonal areas on a metal plate using a fine spray of acrylic polymer resist, stop out and acid. Inking is the same in all areas of Intaglio.

Chine colle: A way of adding spots of colour to your print using coloured tissue paper and adhesive.

Please see glossary of printing terms below:

Intaglio Printing: is a type of printing where a plate that has had ink applied to indentations is pressed into paper.

Ground: A waxy coating that can protect a metal plate from acid. You can scratch/draw into grounds to remove the coating and allow acid to dissolve metal to create deep lines.

Aquatint: an intaglio technique that produces areas of tone rather than lines. It can be used in conjunction with etching for lines and tone. The marks can be more painterly.

Chine colle: is a technique in which a thinner paper is bonded to a heavier support. This could be coloured tissue paper or even a print on a delicate paper.

Polymer resist: is a spray that creates small dots covering a metal plate, protecting it from acid.

Stop Out: is a protective varnish that can prevent acid from reaching the metal plate.

Acid: is a substance with chemical properties that can dissolve metals.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 4 hours

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Induction to the Litho printing Room: W308

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Induction to the Litho printing Room: W308

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The induction will include:

Offset monoprinting: making stencil prints using the manual offset presses with an introduction to inking and colour mixing.

Direct monoprinting: a form of tracing where ink is laid down on a surface and paper is placed on top and then drawn on, transferring the ink onto the paper.

Photolithography: exposing film onto photo sensitive plates that are then made ready for printing using the planographic printing process.

Omnicrom foiling: a basic way of applying metallic foil to paper or card, using a laminator-like machine.

Please see glossary of printing terms below:

Monoprinting: is a type of printmaking where the intent is to make unique prints

Offset: where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface.

Lithography: is a planographic method of printing based on the fact that oil and water don't mix.

Planographic: printing from a flat surface, as opposed to a raised surface or an incised surface.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 4 hours

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This workshop involves making and printing a phot etching intaglio plate. This will include collaging found positives, preparing and applying photo etch to a metal plate, exposing and developing plates, inking and printing on the etching presses.

Photo etching technique is ideal for photographers, illustrators and graphic designers, as this process can use photographic images, graphic/computer based drawings and/or hand drawn images. Photo etching can create photographic plates that can be worked into again using other intaglio processes i.e. etching, aquatint.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 3 hours

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This workshop involves making and printing a photopolymer intaglio plate. This will include collaging found positives, exposing, and developing plates, inking and printing on the etching presses.

Photopolymer technique is ideal for photographers, illustrators and graphic designers, as this process can use photographic images, graphic/computer-based drawings and/or hand drawn images. Photopolymer can produce very fine detailed images with a large range of tonal possibilities.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 3 hours

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This workshop introduces students to zinc lithography. This process is very similar to stone lithography but will cover the processing of a zinc lithography plate, drawing and preparation and printing on an offset lithography press.

This workshop is great for anyone interested in creating hand drawn marks and watercolour washes in print form.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 4 hours

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This workshop introduces students to the stone lithography process. This will include stone preparation, drawing and printing on the direct press. This process is very similar to zinc lithography.

This workshop is great for anyone interested in creating hand drawn marks and watercolour washes in print form.

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 4 hours

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This workshop is for any students wishing to explore colour theory through a series of practical relief printing sessions. The workshop will take place over 3 afternoons on 3 consecutive weeks. It will be held in the Relief Printing Room in W303 at LCC. No previous printing experience is necessary. Taking Inspiration from Johannes Itten’s seminal book ‘The Art of Colour’ this practical workshop will introduce you to different elements of colour theory, including:

Week 1 - Overview of colour theory, colour mixing and complimentary colours
Week 2 - transparent colours
Week 3 - colour experimentation

Once completed allows student to work during open access.

No experience required.  Please wear workshop-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes.

Duration: 3 hours

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Read this guide to find out more information on how to make a drypoint plate and print any intaglio plates.

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This guide will show you how to cut and print a lino block in our workshops.

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Read this PDF to learn more about how to make and print an embossing print.

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Have a look at this PDF for more information on how to create and print a photo lithography plate.

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Read this guide to see how to mono print using hand cut paper stencils on offset lithography presses.

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In the printmaking workshops you can learn about relief printing on our historic presses, etching techniques using acids and photosensitive coatings, and plate and stone lithography.

We also support a wide variety of experimental and hybrid printmaking practices, including foiling, monotype, emboss and deboss, collagraph, and even printmaking for animation!

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Printmaking team email - printmaking@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Jess Copsey: Monday - Friday
j.copsey@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Richard Robert: Monday - Friday
r.f.roberts@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Izzy Smithson: Tuesday - Thursday
i.smithson@arts.ac.uk

Alba Gomez Urquia: Monday, Wednesday - Friday
alba.gomezurquia@arts.ac.uk

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Monday - Friday 10:00 - 17:00

*Lunch 13:00 - 14:00*

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Access our online Omnicrom induction on Panopto here