Printmaking

For the most of my summer, I was living in France. I studied printmaking, a longtime love of mine. I spent over two months working with my hands, getting inky and working with a press. Visit this site to see the many prints I generated during this time.

As you may have seen, I built a printing press with a hydraulic jack. I thought it might be helpful to those of you building your own presses, if you have a printing how-to for a hydraulic jack press.

I’ve been wanting a letterpress for a long time. I was checking eBay periodically, but the inexpensive ones need a lot of work and have a platen area (the printing area) not much bigger than a business card. The nicer presses are hundreds of dollars and still only have a platen around 6 x 8 inches.