Printmaking Facilities

The printmaking studios at WSU provide a professional facility for explorations in print media at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

With 2,700 square-feet of combined space, resources include one room devoted to lithography, relief, intaglio, and associated processes, and a second exclusively for screenprinting. There is also a photo-processes room with a washout booth, pressure washer and exposure unit, and an acid and grounds room.

All spaces are vented for safe use of materials with the addition of pull-down vents and a downdraft worktable in the lithography and etching area.

Students working in printmaking also have access to the digital media facilities for medium format ink-jet printing and film generation.

Equipment

• Takach presses
  • litho (34” x 60” with a 30” x 40”
    Plate Block)
  • litho (34” x 60″)
  • etching (34” x 60”)
• Brand etching press (12” x 24”)
• Showcard press (22” x 28”)
• One-arm screen printing press
  (to 45” x 60”)
• Manual screenprinting vacuum tables
  (approx 26” x 38”)
• Amergraph AdVantage 150
  (31” x 41” exposure unit)
• Litho stones (up to 22” x 30”)
• Vertical etching tanks
  (up to 18” x 24”)
• Grabbit roller and large diameter rollers
• Aquatint Box (for plates up to 18” x 24”)