Article · Three Red Hens: Letterpress & Design
Letterpress Step 3: Making a Photopolymer Plate Out of Your Illustration
By Erika
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2008
About this lesson
An eight-step home tutorial for turning an illustration into a letterpress-ready photopolymer plate: making a film negative, exposing it to light, hand-washing out the unexposed polymer, and thermal curing.
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