IntroductionCalling all ladies, gentlemen, and

other people…

Do you wish to learn the secret art of printing? Do you want to learn it’s mysterious ways?

This book is your key to instant ink printing success.

Step 1Get Your Stuff

To accomplish this art, you will need your materials:• Styrofoam Paper with your engraved picture• Coloured Ink – Red, Pink, Yellow, etc• A Spoon (what you eat your food with if you didn’t know)• Laminated Paper • A3 Paper• Newspaper or scrap paper – for keeping work area clean

Step 2Setting Up

1. Cover your working area newspapers or scrap papers (optional for keeping table clean).Tip: For each inking place (have one for each different coloured ink), have three spaces to it; one for evening the ink on laminated paper, one for rolling the ink on the styrofoam paper, and one clean area for printing the styrofoam paper onto the A3 paper.

2. Keep the inks out, with spoon for taking the paint. Have a different spoon for each ink. Place the laminated paper next to the inks.

Step 3Even out your paints

First, take the ink out using the spoon, and put it on the laminated piece of paper. You are now spreading out the ink with a roller on the laminated paper to create a nice, even layer of ink. This is a very important part of the printing process. If your ink isn’t even, the layer on your first print isn’t going to be very good quality. Handy Hint: You can tell when it is even by the sound. If the ink sounds kind of goopy when you roll it, it is not yet even. There is too much paint in one area. When it reaches a tacky kind of sound, you are ready to print.

Step 4When the ink is even, start to roll in on the styrofoam, face up. If you accidentally put too much and some ink came in the engraved lines, use a pencil and just trace those lines.

Handy Hint: Keep rolling ink until there is a solid colour on the styrofoam. Don’t be hasty .

Inking up your styrofoam

Step 5Now carefully place the styrofoam on the paper. Flip the paper over, so now the styrofoam is beneath the paper. Press the paper in all areas so the ink starts to print. Tip: Press with your palms. They are the most effective and will most ensure you to have a good print.

Handy Hint: When you start to see the lines of your drawing, you are almost done pressing.

Applying your styrofoam to paper

Step 6Carefully peel the paper off the styrofoam. Do it slowly, since if this is not done carefully, your paper has a possibility of tearing.

Peel away…

Warning: If you are not careful, your

paper may look like this.

You Have Now Completed Your First Layer!!

For Your Following Layers…For your following layers, add more detail and

maybe some background. It is more effective if you make a visible difference, and the colours will stand out more. Add texture, colour in some blocks, etc.  Repeat the same instructions on how to print in layer one.

Recommended Colour

CombinationsYellow + Red + Pink + Purple Turquoise + Yellow + Dark BlueRed + Pink + Purple + Yellow + WhitePink + Red + Yellow + WhiteRed + Dark Blue + Yellow + Pink Pink + Purple + Red + Dark Blue Turquoise + Pink + Red