Studio Facilities
SPW provides access to the following printmaking resources
Etching
- Two Harry Rochat Etching Presses, bed sizes 26" and 32" width
- Guillotine for cutting metal plates
- Copper, Aluminium, Perspex and Axpet Polyethylene sheets available for
purchase
- Photec Photo-sensitive laminate and Toyobo Printight plates for Photo-intaglio applications
available for purchase
- Galvetch facilities for etching steel plates and a
Ferric Chloride tank for etching copper.
Lithography
- A Polymetaal direct hand press, bed size 30" x 40"
- A John Grieg direct hand press, bed size 15"x24" bed
- A selection of limestone litho stones, aluminium plates and photo-positive
plates are also available for purchase
Relief printing
- Columbian Press, built in 1825, bed size 20" x 26"
- A hand-operated 24"x32" cylinder proofing press
- A number of book presses of various sizes
- Lino sheets to purchase
Screen printing
- Vacuum
Printing Table with squeegee arm, available printing surface
1 x 1.5 metres
- A self-contained
Exposure Unit for exposing plates or screens, available exposure
surface 48" x 60"
- A back-lit
Washout Booth and Power Washer
- A number
of large and medium-size screenprinting frames
- Several
portable screenprinting unit
- Seacourt
uses only water-based screenprinting inks
Computer facilities
- Mac and PC facilities with ADSL Internet Connection are available for artist members (only)
- Epson Photo Stylus 2100 Ink Jet Printer (for prints to A3 size)
- Photoshop available on both computers and Colorgate on the PC to create four colour separations
Photocopier
- Available at a modest cost to members
- Black and White A4 and A3 paper
- A4 and A3 transparencies