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Robin inking and printing a waterless lithograph plate with her pasta maker

PRINTING WITH A PASTA MAKER - INTAGLIO

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Drypoint 1

Ink plate and place it face down onto dampened paper. Wrap in a piece of thin blanket such as a "soaker" or a piece of thin foam commonly used as a packaging material.

Drypoint 2

Make a "sandwich" of your plate, paper and foam

Step 3

Set your machine - you will need to experiment with this as to the best setting

Step 4

Start feeding the wrapped bundle in to the machine

Step 5

Note that the plate needs to be flexible enough to pass through the machine and beyond without being jammed on the table

Step 6

The print

The print, the plate and the high density foam

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RELIEF/PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING WITH A PASTA MAKER Click on each image for details

The example below is a waterless lithograph plate made of recycled aluminium offset plate from a commercial printer

Step 1

Pasta maker, paper and inked waterless litho plate. This plate is known as a planographic plate but an inked linocut will work well. The plate needs to be flexible.

Step 2

Set your machine, you will need to experiment here.

Step 3

Place the plate face down onto paper

Pasta 4

Begin feeding plate and paper through the machine

Pasta 5

Feeding through

Pasta 6

Pasta 7

The print

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Also see Printing without a press

Also see this excellent video and make one for yourself.

Step 1

Pasta maker, paper and inked waterless litho plate. This plate is known as a planographic plate but an inked linocut will work well. The plate needs to be flexible.