Master the art of letterpress

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From initial sketches to platemaking: illustrator, designer and printmaker David Huyck walks you through how to create a letterpress print

Letterpress printing is part of a centuries-old tradition. As with all relief-printing techniques, ink is applied to a raised surface that is then pressed onto paper, leaving both colour and a physical indentation in the page.

The result is a rich and textured image that cannot be reproduced with modern digital printing techniques, or even with a standard CMYK four-colour process.

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