Make: Volume 93

PROJECTS: Squishy Tech

a single picture. I was impatient, and digital

technologies weren’t around to help speed up the

process. Block printing, as the name suggests,

involves cutting a relief pattern into a surface

that is very slightly spongy, covering the surface

with ink, and then squeezing it through a high

pressure press. I first learned by carving linoleum

blocks (aka linocut). I also did a bit of intaglio

printing (which involves etching copper plates,

very similar to PCB etching).

The presses I used in art school were huge and

able to print on large format paper. When I came

across the Open Press Project, I was so excited

to see this ...