Today I was in the letterpress studio mixing ink for an upcoming Dept of Energy promo poster I’m working on. I promised teasers last week of this work-in-progress, and here is the first one. This poster will need 7 inks total (which took me 6 hours to mix all of ‘em!), 3 press set-up’s & 3 print passes total on two different presses (an electric Vandercook and a C & P manual). Those of you wondering how 7 ink colors end up being only 3 passes-well, that’s because 2 of the passes will be a 3 color split fountain(*). (Ooooo, a hint to how it’ll look!) There will also be some unique details to this poster that extend outside of paper to make it complete. Curious? You should be! But I’m not telling what those are….yet.I haven’t been this excited to print a poster to see how it’ll turn out since….well, ever. If I get it all dead on, this will be simply put, gorgeous. Artful. Keep checking back for more status reports on this project as it progresses….

(*) Split Fountain - Technique of putting ink colors next to each other in the same ink fountain or roller and printing them off the same plate.

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