Boxcar Press provides unexposed plates for intaglio and etching artists who want to create prints using a safer and more environmentally friendly process. Because we specialize in letterpress printing, we do not process intaglio plates at our shop. We can’t offer instruction on how to process these plates. But in an effort to assist artists with their intaglio process, we recommend the following books and web sites, written by people who are creating and experimenting with polymer in terms of correct UV exposure, wash out times, creating transparencies, homemade UV light boxes and more.
Overviews and Glossary
- Website – to identify the various printmaking techniques, with excellent close-ups (called Image Maps) and a glossary, – Print Room at the Spencer Museum of Art – University of Kansas
- Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection Glossary
Technique
- Instructional Outlines from State University at Buffalo, NY
- Animations demonstrating basic printmaking techniques on the Museum of Modern Art website. Includes a great glossary and recommended reading list.
- “Polymer Photogravure for More Photographic Intaglio Prints” by Jon Lybrook (new weblink)
- Non Toxic Printing – Intaglio Manual
- Non Toxic Printing – Instructional Videos
- World Printmakers – Technical Topics
- “Photo intaglio – an overview, ” Alternative Photography (new weblink)
- Intaglio Printing from Art Reflective
- ” Intaglio photogravure printmaking ” Alternative Photography (new weblink)
- Solarplate Etching how to
- “Possibilities of Polymer Photogravure,” by Kari Holopainen (new weblink)
- Videos on etching, lithography and relief printing – Caliornia Society of Printmakers
- Monoprinting / Drypoint
Instructions and Suppliers – Light Boxes, Brayers, Inks, Aquatints, Negatives
- Dan Burkholder’s “Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing”
- McClain Printmaking
- Ultraviolet Light Box
- Pictorico – transparency film for photopolymer plates
- Renaissance Graphic Arts
- Video on making an etching press
- Building an Exposure Unit
- Intaglio Printmaking Equipment
Learn more with videos and books
- Video on Etching and Screenprinting – Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
- Intaglio: The Complete Safety-First System for Creative Printmaking: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint By Robert Adam, Carol Robertson
- Etching and Photopolymer Intaglio Techniques, by Colin Gale
- Printmaking in the Sun, by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir (Amazon)
- Polymer Photogravure: A New Method for Photographers and Graphic Artists, by Taneli Eskola and Kan Holopainen
- Intaglio Printmaking (Printmaking Handbooks) By Mychael Barratt
Other links to useful and interesting Sites
- University Art Dept and Printmaking Directory – Bill Fisher
- Printmaking Links from Maryland Printmakers
- World Printmakers
- Zea Mays Printmaking Resources
We hope this information helps you in the process of what you’re trying to achieve. Please help us to spread the good news by letting us know about other useful sources.
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