Print

Relief print techniques include woodcut, linocut, letterpress and rubberstamping and requires the artist to cut their design into a flat surface (wood or lino) to remove the areas they want to remain white and leaving the surface of the block uncut where ink is to be printed. The raised areas of the printing surface are inked using a roller and either passed through a press under pressure, or hand burnished, to transfer the ink to the paper.

• 1838 Columbian Press (Bed Size 27” x 37”)
• c. 1830 Britannia Hand Iron Press, 20” x 26” (kindly donated by Bryan K. Foster of Ashby Lane Press, Bitteswell)
• Hydraulic Beevers Press (Bed size – 43.5” x 31.5”)
• Galley proofing press, 8” x 16”
• 4 x Adana 8×5 tabletop presses
• 4 x Nipping presses. (Sizes: 18” x 12”, 12” x 9”, 12” x 10”, 12” x 9.5”)
• A large collection of metal and wood type
• Composing room equipment: galleys, chases, lead cutter, bowler, composing sticks, etc.

Intaglio comes from the Italian word intagliare meaning ‘to incise’ and is the general name for etching, engraving, aquatint, drypoint etc. which describes the process of printing from the lower surface of a block plate.

The plate is prepared using one of the above methods, the ink is forced into the incisions, the surface of the plate is cleaned off, and the plate and damp paper are rolled through the press under great pressure to transfer the ink onto paper.

• 2 x Rochat etching presses, 26” x 48” / 66cm x 121cm
• 2 x Extraction Units – Multiple baths for nitric and Dutch mordant etching
• Resin aquatint booth (max plate size 18” x 30” / 46cm x 76cm)
• Hotplate for applying hard and soft grounds
• 3 x Rollaco portable presses (2 × 30 × 60 cm – 1 × 40 × 80cm)
• Darkroom for photo etching, solar plate and cyanotypes.
• Guillotine – suitable for cutting metal plates (zinc and copper) up to 1 metre

Screenprinting originated in China (around AD 221) as a way of transferring designs onto fabrics. A woven fabric is stretched over a screen, the stencilled image is blocked out through a number of techniques including stencilled paper and photographic emulsion, and a squeegee is used to press ink through the unblocked area of the screen, directly onto to paper or fabric.

• Natgraph self contained exposure unit, 16” x 23” / 42cm x 60cm
• Natgraph self contained exposure unit, 30” x 40” / 76cm x 102cm
• 1 x large silkscreen vacuum bed, 30” x 40”
• Hinged screenprinting boards (various sizes)
• Heatpress for textiles (foiling, flocking, puff binder and devore,) 36cm x 36cm / 14” x 14”
• Large backlit wash out unit and drying cabinets
• Screen storage available
• Screens for hire

Invented by Aloys Senefelder in Germany 1796, through experimenting with finding a cheap method to reproduce musical scores, lithography (from the Greek: lithos – stone, and graphein – to write) is a planographic printmaking technique.

• Hunter Penrose Offset Press 53cm x 43cm
• Furnival & Co Stone Lithography Press 18” x 33” / 47cm x 85cm
• B. Winston & Sons Stone Lithography Press 26” x 40” / 65cm x 103cm
• Over 30 Lithography Stones
• Darkroom for photoplate lithography

Monoprinting is when just one impression is taken no matter what technique is used and is a single printing of an image incapable of being identically printed again; the most common technique involves painting or rolling an image on glass, perspex or metal.

• Aluminium and gelli plates
• 2 x Rochat etching presses, 26” x 48” / 66cm x 121cm
• 3 x Rollaco portable presses (2 × 30 × 60 cm – 1 × 40 × 80cm)
• Hunter Penrose Offset Press

Materials for screenprinting onto textiles includes calico, padded boards and tabletops, flock, foil and puff binder as well as disperse dyes.

• Natgraph self contained exposure unit, 16” x 23” / 42cm x 60cm
• Natgraph self contained exposure unit, 30” x 40” / 76cm x 102cm
• Heatpress(foiling, flocking, puff binder and devore,) 36cm x 36cm / 14” x 14”
• Large backlit wash out unit and drying cabinets
• Screen storage available
• Screens for hire

• Nipping Press 26 x 38 cm
• Nipping Press 52 x 38 cm
• Materials including book cloth; mill board
• Rotatrim Paper Guillotine (max width 127cm)

Services

We offer a museum standard commercial framing service, with a choice of mouldings, stains and mounts, up to A1 sized frames.

Please get in touch via info@leicesterprintworkshop.com or 0116 251 4174 to discuss framing preferences for your artwork or drop in during opening hours.

Framing Room

LPW members are encouraged to use the framing room once they have had a framing induction.

Please get in touch via info@leicesterprintworkshop.com or 0116 251 4174 to book an induction or framing room slot.

• Morso Guillotine
• Morso Underpinner
• Keen Cut Mount Cutting Guillotine
• Solid wood mouldings supplied by Rose & Hollis