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Lasercutter Letterpress: Making My Own Letterpress Printing Blocks—With Lasers! and Fire!
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
A university digital-humanities librarian's documented experiments cutting letterpress printing blocks from end-grain maple with a laser cutter, covering settings, number of passes, registration problems, and results.
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