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If you're printing one color prints, well, you cut the linoleum block, slap a piece of paper on it, trim the paper and you're done.
If you want to do multiple-block printing, you have to have some way to line the edge of the paper up every time, so that, say, the red background printed from block 1 lines up with the black foreground printed from block 2. This is called registration.
If you want to do multiple-block printing, you have to have some way to line the edge of the paper up every time, so that, say, the red background printed from block 1 lines up with the black foreground printed from block 2. This is called registration.
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Signing UpStep 1What a shoddily made jig looks like
I used this jig to print the intro print and hundreds of others over the last couple of years. I threw it together out of scrap wood and stuff around the house, quickly and terribly, and it's held up forever with no particular signs of wear.
The wood edges here between the area where the printing block goes and the cardboard "guardrail" is 3/4 of an inch. I want to make some bigger prints with a bigger border, so I'm making a 1" jig and a 1.5" jig.
The wood edges here between the area where the printing block goes and the cardboard "guardrail" is 3/4 of an inch. I want to make some bigger prints with a bigger border, so I'm making a 1" jig and a 1.5" jig.
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Mar 30, 2009. 2:33 PMlozartist
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This will actually help me with my senior thesis prints. I'm quite glad I came across this.
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Oct 10, 2008. 2:55 PMEl Rey (author)
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Thanks!
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Oct 10, 2008. 6:37 AM
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LinuxH4x0r
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Great job. I did some linoleum stamps a few years ago and they turned out really nice. 4.5/5
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