Health and safety
- Use apron to protect clothes
- Rubber gloves or barrier cream to be worn
- Long hair and scarves must be tucked away
- Clean all equipment and slabs with vegetable oil or turps using a rag
- Leave workshop clean and tidy
- File and burnish edges of the zinc plate
- De-grease the plate
- put it on a hot tale
- Apply hard ground - a waxy brown acid resistant coating - with a roller
- Transfer your image onto the plate, using tracing paper, or draw free hand
- Remember to reverse your image
- Using a sharp point (etching needle) repeat your image by scratching back the ground
- Protect the other side of the plate with a duck or parcel tape
- Put plate into nitric aid for approx. 5 minutes
- Polish plate with Brasso then rinse with hot water and dry
- Prepare and dampen paper in wather, roll it between layers of blotting paper
- Ink your plate. Rough paint brushes can be used to push ink into the grooves
- Use a rag or newspaper to wipe of excess ink and slightly polish the plate
- Place your plate onto clean newsprint on the center of printing bed
- Cover with the damp paper, sheet of newsprint and blanket on top
- Wind through the printing bed without stopping
- Allow print to air-dry by placing it on the drying rack.
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