Lithography Studio
|
Location: 0C15a, C-Block, Bower Ashton Campus
Staff: Phil Bowden Situated in room OC15, the Lithography area is a spacious studio, well equipped with three Offset and one Direct printing press, and all the necesarry ancilliary pre-press and production equipment to cover the full range of possibilities offered by the process. |
|
From its beginnings at the end of the 18th Century, Lithographic process was used both by artists to print folios or editions of their drawn imagery, and by commercial studios in the production of an ever- increasing range of ephemeral printed matter. This is still the case, and today many artists worldwide print short runs of their work in private studios, ateliers and printmaking cooperatives at the same time as commercial offset printing businesses produce all the high speed, large volume printing of books, magazines, newspapers and so on. As commercial Lithographic technology has changed over time, so artists have retained the industrially redundant early methods and gained access to new ways of working with the medium.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preparing the Litho stone surface
|
|
|
|
Drawing and printing the stone
|
|
Equipment list:
Direct Litho press for stone and hand-drawn plate printing. Large offset press, can print paper up to 95cm X 70cm Two small offset presses, can print paper up to 58cm X 45cm. All necessary hand tools, printing stones, printing plates, rollers, inks, and chemicals for the litho process. |
|