Logos Graphics

Intaglio Print

Based on the popular feedback of our intaglio salon, we’re happy to announce our first summer class!

Experience the thrill of making your own freehand intaglio prints in this two-day class! You’ll have the opportunity to make your own mark onto a copper plate coated with ImagOn, ink up, and print with our Sturges etching press onto dampened paper. If you’ve never tried intaglio, this is an excellent introduction to fine (and fun!) printmaking. All levels welcome.

Autographic Intaglio Class
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 from 7 – 9 pm and
Saturday, June 5 from 11 am – 3 pm (class meets both days).
$100, including fee materials

To sign up, please email class@logosgraphics.net.

Intaglio Print

Just a friendly reminder that we’re hosting our first winter salon tomorrow afternoon. It’s a free opportunity to learn about photogravure with a Sturgess etching press.

Intaglio Salon – free!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
2 – 4:30 pm

Come witness the beauty of intaglio! We’ll explore large-scale printmaking using our Sturges etching press, image setter film positives and KM73 plates. We’ll discuss different etching inks and their application while printing onto Rives BFK paper.

If interested, please drop us a line to let us know you’re coming!

Here is our Winter and Spring 2010 Salon and Class schedule. Salons are free and open to the public, and classes require registration and payment of fees via Paypal or check. All events are held at our studio in San Francisco. For more information or to sign up, please send us an email!

Intaglio Plate

Intaglio Salon – free!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
2 – 4:30 pm

Come witness the beauty of intaglio! We will explore large-scale printmaking using our Sturges etching press, image setter film positives and KM73 plates. We’ll discuss different etching inks and their application while printing onto Rives BFK paper.

Pre-Press for Letterpress Class
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7-9 pm
$35

Press Sheet Layout

Come find out how to reduce your film and plate costs with our prepress and file preparation tips! In this class, find out the most cost-effective way to prepare your files for plate production, saving you both time and money. We’ll cover digital layout schemes, handling Photoshop images, type, and little-known tricks for creating letterpress-friendly designs.

This class is a great opportunity to check out our Heidelberg Windmill letterpress. Participants will be eligible for a 15% discount on their next film or plate order from Logos Graphics.

Introductory Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress Class
Saturday, March 27, 2010
11 am – 3 pm
$75

Heidelberg Windmill

We welcome you to join us for a one-day introductory Windmill class! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn the set up and printing basics for the Heidelberg Windmill letterpress.

We’ll include tips and tricks for make ready, inking secrets, and printing onto a wide variety of papers (including envelopes!). Participants will have multiple opportunities to set up and run this fantastic letterpress. Class size is limited to 6 people.

To register, please send us an email. Payment may be sent online via Paypal or by mailing a check (made payable to Logos Graphics).

Job Planning for Letterpress
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7-9 pm
$40

Have you ever wondered about using different papers? Or been confused by paper grain direction and its influence on printing? This class will cover a host of basic job planning strategies, from choosing the appropriate stock, laying out efficient press sheets, comparing increased letterpress plate costs versus printing multiple-up forms, etc. A must for both the beginner and advanced printer alike.

PCBA Salon: Screen Printing Tote Bags – free!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
1-4 pm

Come join us for an afternoon of free screen printing in anticipation of this year’s Pacific Center for the Book Arts Printers Fair.

We’ll screen print tote bags for sale at the fair. If you bring your own paper grocery shopping bags, you can screen print a few for yourself to take home too. You’ll have fun at this fast and easy process, and meet other PCBA members in this Saturday afternoon salon.

Intaglio Print

As 2009 draws to a close, we’d like to wish a very happy new year to all of our friends and clients.

Thank you for helping to make this a special year for us, from celebrating the Vandercook’s 100th anniversary to screen printing rockin’ posters and delving further into intaglio (see example, left).

We’ll post our upcoming Winter 2010 schedule of salons and classes early next year.

If you would like to be included in our class email list, please send an email to class [at] logosgraphics [dot] net.

Our friend Gary pointed us toward this great Flash-based, interactive introduction to different print processes. It covers several print processes that we offer here at Logos: woodcut, etching (also known as intaglio), lithography (we do offset lithography today), and screen printing. For those wondering where letterpress fits in, note that letterpress is similar to woodcut printing in that they are both relief (raised) printing processes.

We encourage you to check to out this great online project for yourself, especially if you are considering taking any of our upcoming classes or salons.

We are happy to announce our upcoming Summer 2009 event schedule at Logos Graphics. This summer we will jump into more letterpress and screen printing fun!

For the very first time, we are also hosting free Salons that are open to the public! Through our Salon series, experienced printers and novices alike can come and enjoy an introductory demo of a printmaking process in a relaxed atmosphere. We’ll have a chance to meet you and show you our workflow through different printing methods, and through your feedback be able to better tailor our summer classes.

Depending on the response to our Salons, we may schedule more summer classes. As always, we welcome your suggestions for class topics. If you would like to register or discuss a class idea, please email us!

Salon 01: Screen Printing Aprons

Saturday, April 25, 2009
3-6 pm
Free!

Our first Salon is a casual gathering two weeks before the PCBA Printer’s and Book Arts Fair. We will screen print onto 100% cotton canvas aprons for the fair, covering the basic process of setting up a screen printing press for textiles, inks and appropriate squeegee techniques.

The aprons will be available for sale at the fair on Saturday May 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm at Fort Mason in San Francisco. More info on the fair is available at the PCBA website.

Salon 02: Screen Printing with Torn/Cut Paper Stencils

Saturday, May 16, 2009
3-6 pm
Free!

Our second Salon provides an excellent introduction to screen printing onto paper. We’ll have a live demonstration that includes tearing and cutting paper stencils, applying them to screens, using water-based inks and special squeegee techniques. This is a great option for those who favor quick, chance-based art forms.

Letterpress Recession Buster!

Saturday, May 30, 2009
3-6 pm
$35

Come find out how to reduce your film and plate costs with our prepress/file preparation tips! In this class, find out the most cost-effective way to prepare your files for plate production, saving you both time and money. We’ll cover digital layout schemes, handling Photoshop images, and little-known tricks for creating letterpress-friendly designs.

This class is a great opportunity to check out our Heidelberg Windmill letterpress. Participants will be eligible for a 15% discount on their next film or plate order from Logos Graphics!

Introduction to Paste Papers + Simple Accordion Books

Saturday, June 20, 2009
10 am to 5 pm
Cost = $50 (includes materials fee)

Paste papers are a fast way to whip up non-representational work onto paper. In the morning, we’ll show you how to make simple paste papers using a range of acrylic pigments and paper colors.

In the afternoon, we’ll take the paste papers from the a.m. session and create simple accordion book structures for you to take home, further decorate and share!

Introductory Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress Class

Saturday, July 18, 2009
10 am to 5 pm
Cost = $75

After some consideration, we’ve decided to create a one-day introductory Windmill class! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn the set up and printing basics for the Heidelberg Windmill letterpress. We’ll include tips and tricks for make ready, inking secrets, and printing onto a wide variety of papers (including envelopes!). Participants will have multiple opportunities to set up and run this fantastic letterpress. Class size is limited to 6 people.

Freehand painting for intaglio

We’ll be open tomorrow during Open Studios. Please stop by as we demonstrate the intaglio process!

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.

We’re pleased to announce the following classes for the Winter 2008 season. They include two one-day classes as well as two five-week series, all taught at Logos Graphics. Come back to our website soon for more information and class dates!

1 Day Letterpress: All About Paper

If you have ever wondered about the differences between letterpress papers, this is the class for you! We’ll answer such questions as:

• How does one paper print differently from another?
• Which papers take a letterpress impression better than others?
• How does grain direction affect my printing?
• Which papers are readily available vs. pre-ordering?
• Cost comparison of papers?

Come to this one-day class and explore which papers are best for you, and try your own hand at testing several different types! We’ll provide samples of Rives BFK, Hannemühle, Crane’s Lettra, Somerset, and more for you to take home. Light snacks will be provided.

Class Fee: $40, includes one bound paper sample book; additional sample books available at $5 apiece

Date and Time: Saturday, November 17, 2007 | 10 am – 2 pm

Email us to sign up!

5 Week Intaglio: Photo and Hand Work

Held over five Thursday evenings, this intensive intaglio series encompasses an extensive range of intaglio techniques. Each week, 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!

Class Fee: $400
All materials are provided for weeks 1 through 3, you provide paper for weeks 4 and 5.
Dates: February 7, 14, 21, 28; March 6
Time: 6:30-9:30 pm

5 Week Screen Printing

Screen printing is a quick and easy way to produce to beautiful prints. We’ll cover essential foundation skills for screen printing using water-based inks. Both paper and textiles will be used. This five-week series will be held on Thursday evenings.

Class Fee: $400
Dates: March 20, 27; April 3, 10, 17.
Time:  6:30-9:30 pm

Below are photos from the Intaglio class taught at the San Francisco Center for the Book.