Logos Graphics

Summer 2008 Classes

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by admin.

It’s warming up, and our Summer 2008 class schedule is now here! From June - August, we’ll be holding classes for intaglio, screen printing and letterpress. To register or find out more info, please email class@logosgraphics.net. All classes will be held at Logos Graphics. Here’s the scoop:

One-Week Summer Intaglio

• Wednesday, June 25 from 7-9 pm;
  Saturday, June 28 from 1-5 pm
• Cost: $85 + $15 materials fee
• Intaglio class syllabus

If you’re a photographer or printmaker, come to this introductory course and learn about the beautiful, easy and non-toxic process of intaglio. We’ll dive into each step of the intaglio process with the chance to make and take away fine art prints:

• Optimizing your digital photo files for photogravure
• Preparing ImagOn for copper plates
• Exposing the plates for printing
• Etching press fundamentals
• You’ll also get the chance to flex your freehand skills with alternative, non-photo techniques like toner wash-based printing!

One-Week Summer Screen Printing

• Wednesday, July 9 from 7-9 pm;
  Saturday, July 12 from 1-5 pm
• Cost: $85 + $15 materials fee
• Screen Printing class syllabus

Fancy making your very own shirts, bags, or posters? Try your hand at screen printing! We’ll cover essential foundation skills for screen printing using water-based inks. You’ll also have the opportunity to experiment with both paper and textiles.

Saturday Letterpress Sessions

Our popular Letterpress class series continues this summer, this time with specific topics requested by clients.

We teach a variety of “outside the manual” letterpress workshops, each conveniently held on a Saturday. Students who enroll in all three workshops qualify for a 15% discount on total fees.

Workshops include:

• Digital Pre-Press

  Saturday, July 19 from 1-5 pm
  Cost: $85

  This class is targeted at letterpress printers who use photopolymer plates, graphic designers and those who seek advanced digital pre-press production skills. We’ll show you the best way to lay out your digital files to be made into plates, efficient methods for converting bitmap type and graphics into vector outlines, and typographic fundamentals specific to letterpress.

  Students of this class qualify for a 10% discount on future plate orders from Logos Graphics.

• Black vs. Black

  Saturday, August 2 from 1-5 pm
  Cost: $85

  The perfect black can be elusive to letterpress printers! Come and solve the mystery between different black inks and their responses to a range of papers. We’ll compare sized vs. unsized papers, and use a densitometer to examine edge sharpness, ink strength, and film thickness between different black inks.

• Job Planning 101

Saturday, August 9 from 1-5 pm
Cost: $85

Have you ever printed a job and then found that you’ve accidentally (or unwittingly) skipped a step in your job planning? Come to this class of essential, but often underlooked, job planning skills.

We’ll cover everything you’ll need to know to successfully execute your next job and maximize your (often limited) budget too.

You’ll learn how to properly choose and trim the right paper, layout digital type and graphic files for film and plate-making, determine the appropriate press sheet size, set up complex jobs (double-sided, tumbled or work-and-turn print jobs), as well as set the order of printing multiple pieces. A must for all printers.

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