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Community-maintained FAQ from the largest printmaking forum online, answering the questions beginners actually hit: which lino and carving tools to buy, ink types, printing without a press, safety, and pointers into technique-specific guides and suppliers.
More resources on Printmaking
The Print Cast
Interview podcast in which printmaker Nick Naughton talks with contemporary printmakers, letterpress and screen printers, foil stampers and bookbinders about their processes, studios and businesses. Offers practical technique tips and a view of how working print artists sustain a practice.
Laura Boswell: Tips and Guides for Linocut and Japanese Woodblock
Free video demonstrations and written guides from a full-time UK relief printmaker: the #linowithlaura reduction linocut series, fine-detail carving, inking and registration methods, and an introduction to Japanese water-based woodblock (mokuhanga) practice.
Handprinted Blog: Printmaking Technique Guides
Several hundred photographed step-by-step tutorials from a UK printmaking supplier and teaching studio, covering linocut (including reduction and jigsaw methods), drypoint, collagraph, screen printing, monotype, ink comparisons, and paper choices, with honest side-by-side materials tests.
UNSW Making Centre: Printmaking Learning Resources
Open teaching resources from UNSW Art & Design's print workshop, organized by process: introduction to printmaking, intaglio, relief, lithography, and monoprinting, plus recommended materials lists. Written as the technical backbone for the university's studio printmaking courses.
Crown Point Press: Ways of Making Fine Art Prints
Process guides from the San Francisco press that led the American etching revival, explaining the four printing methods and detailing intaglio techniques — etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, soft ground — with master-printer tips and videos of artists working in the studio.
The Complete Printmaker: Techniques, Traditions, Innovations
Classic studio manual walking through more than forty-five printmaking methods — etching, engraving, lithography, relief, collagraph, screen print, and monotype — with 600 illustrations, workshop practice, edition printing, and print-collecting context. Long used as a college printmaking textbook.