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Lithography

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 firms 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.

Situated in room OG6, the Lithography area is a spacious studio with plenty of natural daylight. The department is very 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.

Preparing the Litho stone surface

Drawing and printing the stone

Equipment list:

'Deffa' offset press with a bed size of...
'Deffa' offset press with a bed size of...
Mylander offset press with a bed size of...
Direct litho press with a bed size of...  for stone and hand-drawn plate.

Leather-shod 'nap' rollers for proofing and printing from stone and hand-drawn plate.
PVC spindle rollers in a range of sizes to suit all printing situations.

Exposure unit for photo-sensitive plate production.

'Graining' machine for preparation of hand-drawn plates.