Limerick Printmakers provides facilities for etching, lithography, collographs, woodblock, silkscreen, digital print and now includes a darkroom for photography.  

Inks, paper, copper, aluminum as well as other miscellaneous are all available to purchase at the studio. Alternatively about once a month the studio will order materials in for members.

Etching

• Polymetaal Etching Press Bed 1 x 2m
• Art Equipment Etching Press Bed 60 x 121cm
• Art Equipment Hot Plate 50 x 60cm  
• Polymetaal Rosin Dust Box SK-80 (work size 80x100cm)
• UV Exposure Light Unit and dark room
• Mechanical shear for metal

                    

Lithography

• Radcliff & Sons Lithography press (motorized) Bed 1 x 2m
• Polymetaal Jl-80 litho press bed size 82 x 114cm 
• Selection of stones Sizes btw 25 x 30cm to 106 x 80cm
• Hand levigator

 

Woodblock

• Asbern Editioning Press Bed 50 x 68 cm

   

Silkscreen

• 2 x Fox Graphic silkscreen press Bed size 115 x 84.5cm
• Precision Silkscreen press Bed Size 110x155.5cm
• Natgraph Silkscreen press Bed Size 218cm X 142cm 
• Largescale Natgraph drying cabinet UV Exposure Light Unit and dark room
• Wet room with professional back lit wash out booth
• K’archer power hose

 

 

Digital Print

• DELL Dimension 2350 60GB Hard Drive, Pentium 4 Processor 2GHz, 256GB RAM memory, integrated sound, video, cd-rom, zip disk with Photoshop 7.
• Epson Stylus Pro 78000 Ultrachrome K3 Wide format Inkjet printer
• Epson EMP-82+ Digital Projector
• Epson P1260 Scanner
• Dell Inspiron laptop with wireless facility and Photoshop 7
• Wireless network with broadband

 

Photography

• Light proof darkroom with safe light and ventilation
• Photographic enlarger
• Browns Darkroom Sink Ampro 80