A guide to professional printmaking practice, this is the first book to be published in this field and provides all the information a printmaker needs about the fine art printmaking trade. Areas covered include guidelines on signing and pricing prints, where to sell them, who makes them, who publishes them, what courses are available, business practice, legal issues and accounting. There are also lists of print galleries, dealers, etc.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Making Prints: origins of print workshops in Britain - chronology of British printworkshops up to 1980; stages in making a print; print workshop practices - types of workshop, costings and charges; establishing your own print workshop - finding a building to work in, renting a workshop, leases, raising the money; health and safety in printmaking - how materials affect the body, working practice, major health hazards in the print processes; directory of British open access print workshops; directory of international print workshops; directory of printmaking courses in British art schools, polytechnics and universities - undergraduate level printmaking courses leading to approved degrees, undergraduate printmaking courses in colleges of art, technology and higher education, polytechnics, universities, post-graduate printmaking courses, full-time approved courses, part-time post-graduate approved courses. Part 2 Professional printmaking practice: care of prints - paper; signing prints - signatures, terms and marks used on original prints; storage, framing, conservation and restoration - storage, mounting, framing and damage to prints, other detrimental factors to prints and paper, conservation and restoration; pricing prints - costing your work, pricing structures, VAT on print prices, sale-or-return, factors affecting the price of prints, selling an edition, documentation and record keeping. Part 3 Selling prints: marketing - promotion, self promotion, exhibiting prints - before approaching a gallery, galleries and exhibitions, exhibitions; London galleries that show prints - art to businesses; print publishers, dealers and agents - London print publishers, dealer and agents, regional print publishers, dealers and agents; contracts for selling prints - what is a contract?, types of contracts, commissions, problems with contracts; copyright and prints - what is copyright?, protection of prints in copyright law, ownership of copyright in prints, length of copyright protection, summary of copyright rules, infringements of copyright, international protection, some questions answered; exporting prints - ways of travelling abroad with prints, customs, insurance; the press and the media - a mailing list, job vacancies, publicity, international print magazines, general British art magazines, British press. Part 4 A printmaker's income: unemployment; self-employment; taxation; accounts; national insurance; pensions; book-keeping; banks; employing people; Value Added Tax; insurance; sources of finance, information and advice. Part 5 Opportunities for printmakers: sponsorship; Arts Councils and Regional Arts Associations; useful British associations; international printmakers' associations; international print biennales and triennales; printmakers' awards, prizes and opportunities; national printmaking competitions; Art Fairs.