Edition Printing

Gate 44 provides professional quality edition printing in various hand printmaking techniques

etching | silkscreen | woodcut

We print for artists, illustrators, galleries and institutions from our print studio in Milan, Italy.

Etching & Woodcut

zinc & copper etching, image on photogravure, photopolymer etching, monotype, offset lino/wood

The print studio is equipped for various traditional etching techniques such as aquatint, sugar lift, salt manner, soap ground etc. All processes such as matrix creation, editioning, binding etc. take place in-house. Our team of printmakers assists artists, illustrators and designers giving life to their ideas. We approach projects individually, researching and experimenting with materials and processes in order to address the uniqueness of each and every one. We provide a well organised, clean and professional work environment for artists and printmakers in a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.

MAX FORMAT: 280 X125 CM.

aquatint box, acid baths, exposure unit, rollers, drying cartons and racks

Silk-screen

PAPER, CANVAS & FABRIC SILKSCREEN

The studio is equipped with exposure unit and wash out booth allowing for in house screen burning and reclaiming. We have a large format paper, wall-paper printing and fabric/t-shirt printing set up. The silk screen beds are: an assisted squeegee (max format 160x100 cm. ) semiautomatic screen printing machine (100x70 cm.) line printing for t-shirts. large tables and drying racks.

screens, exposure unit, washout booth, squeegees

CHOOSE YOUR SOLUTION

Artists wanting to work in any etching technique or in screen print can opt between three types of edition printing services: 1) drop off and pick up, 2) work side by side with the printmaker, 3) work completely independently,

STAY GREEN

At gate44 we provide a safe and healthy environment. We try to be as green and non-toxic as possible without compromising quality. For etching we substituted solvents with VCA (vegetable cleaning agents), nitric acid is strictly forbidden, we prefer zinc and copper sulfate to copper and ferric cloride and we incentivate more modern materials and techniques such as photopolymers and light and water based etching processes. For screen-printing we use high quality water based inks and commercial soaps and degreasers. Water and trash are properly disposed and recycled.