New product! Big etching grounds and videos

Takach Press  1-800-248-3460 Online Store    Etching Press    Litho Press    Used Presses    Gallery e-Gift Cards     Wish List ImagOnHD Reminder It is getting to be that time of year again where the temperature starts to warm up.  This means that ImagOnHD will no longer be available on our website and you will need to call in your orders.  We will also be encouraging you to have your ImagOn Orders rushed so that it does not suffer any heat damage.  You can still order it online for a short time and have it shipped ground but you will need to hurry. Order online here BIG Etching Grounds Get your NON-TOXIC BIG Etching ground here at Takach Press.  Featured at this years SGCI conference. It is available in RED or BLACK. Want to watch a video to see how it works?  Click HERE PURETCH printmaking film for photo etching copper plate in ferric chloride.This is the thinnest dry film photoresist available which yields the highest resolution etchable resist. This film is ideal for photo etching high resolution halftones and hand drawn line work on matte mylar or inkjet transparency. Puretch is a negative working film which means it is exposed with a positive. If an aquatint is required it can be applied traditionally over top of the developed film or with a separate exposure to an aquatint screen. Puretch laminates with distilled water and squeegee. Expose film with a UV point light for best results. The exposed film is developed in a 1% soda ash solution. Etch copper plates with ferric chloride. The film can be stripped from the etched plate with an alkali such as TSP and the plate can be reworked with any traditional process. Detailed instructions are included with film. Available in 24.75 inches wide x 10 feet long roll. OUTLAW BLACK  Gamblin Artist Printmaking Inks are highly pigmented professional quality inks. Tom Huck's Outlaw Black Now available at Takach Press Relief Ink 1 lb Can The official ink of Evil Prints, crafted for relief printmaking Pigment: Carbon Black (pb 7), Bone Black (pbk 9) Vehicle: Burnt Plate Oil Lightfastness: 1 Drive-By Black Relief Textile Ink by Gamblin   Gamblin Artist Printmaking Inks are highly pigmented professional quality inks.  Drive By Black Relief Textile Ink is  Now available at Takach Press Textile Relief Ink 1 lb Can The official ink of Drive By Press, crafted for Textile Relief printmaking. Pigment: Ferri-ammonium ferrocyanide (PB 27:1), Carbon Black (Pbk 7), Bone Black (pbk9), Complex silicate of sodium & aluminum with sulfer (PB 29) Vehicle: Burnt Plate Oil Lightfastness: 1 Takach Press How to use BIG etching ground videos Hard Ground B.I.G. Soft Ground Part 1 Soft Ground Part 2 Sandpaper Aquatint Icing Sugar Aquatint Part 1 Icing Sugar Aquatint Part 2 Icing Sugar Aquatint Part 3 Coffee Lift & Spit Bite Part 1 Coffee Lift & Spit Bite Part 2