Students can make use of the Printmaking facilities at any time during the College year, by arrangement with the relevant technical instructors. Materials costs will be charged to the student or to their programme.

Colour output facilities, including very high resolution IRIS printing, are also available in Visual Communication.

The Printmaking programme can offer one-to-one advice on lithography (four-colour separation, duo tone, stone and plate printing) in etching; dryprint and lino printing; screenprinting and monoprinting.

In addition, the Printmaking programme runs a series of evening introductory workshops in the three main areas mentioned above. Attendance at these workshops is not a pre-requisite to using these facilities.

As well as standard A4- and A3-size copies, there is also a facility for printing from 35mm slides; all instructions are posted upon the wall. It should be noted that this machine is maintained by the leasing company, and not the Printmaking programme, and therefore no technical assistance is available for its use.

These machines are card-operated only. Photocopy charge-cards can be purchased from the Library for use with this photocopier, and these cards can also be used with the Library’s colour photocopier.