Print Your Personal Postcards and Miniature Woodcuts with This Tabletop Printing Press — Colossal

Print Your Personal Postcards and Miniature Woodcuts with This Tabletop Printing Press — Colossal



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#Open Press Challenge
#printmaking

August 8, 2024

Grace Ebert

Print Your Personal Postcards and Miniature Woodcuts with This Tabletop Printing Press — Colossal

All pictures © Open Press Challenge, shared with permission

Cologne-based designers Martin Schneider and Dominik Schmitz of the Open Press Challenge are again with a brand new design that scales up miniature printmaking. Presently funding on Kickstarter, The Postcard Printing Press is the biggest miniature mannequin the duo have created up to now, though it nonetheless matches on the palm of a hand and could be neatly tucked right into a backpack for simple transport.

As its title suggests, the 3D-printed, tabletop machine is designed for paper about 4 x 9 inches broad and is able to all forms of intaglio printing, from etching and engraving to linocuts and woodcuts. Schneider and Schmitz additionally upgraded the metallic elements from earlier iterations to make at-home printmaking somewhat simpler.

Though the marketing campaign has 22 days to go on Kickstarter, it’s already surpassed its purpose practically six instances over. Discover extra concerning the mission on the Open Press web site and Instagram.

 

a white hand holds a black printing press with white paper

a black printing press with white paper clamps onto a wood workbench

a white hand feeds paper, a copper plate, and a base grid into a black printing press with white paper clamped onto a wood workbench

a black printing press with white paper clamps onto a wood workbench

a detail of metal and black printing press with white paper clamped onto a wood workbench

a detail of metal and black printing press with white paper clamped onto a wood workbench

a metal and black printing press with white paper on a wood table

#Open Press Challenge
#printmaking

 

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