Learn to set movable lead type and print on a table-top hand press in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historical process. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100-year-old equipment! Successful completion of this one-day class allows IPRC members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing!

Cost: $55/Members Only
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Zines are a valuable tool that can be used to empower and inspire students by teaching them to make their own media. Join seasoned zinester/educator Marc Parker in a discussion about how to teach zines to students. A zine is a hand-made publication made for passion and not for profit.

$15 members / $20 nonmembers

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Expand your letterpress printing knowledge: the poster press allows you to print on larger format sheets of paper using uniquely designed components. Make broadsides and event posters and learn the fundamentals of this special, fast lock-up flat-bed press. We will get acquainted with IPRC’s printshop and make a group project to commemorate the day. After completion of this class, you will be able to use the poster press during open printshop hours
Cost: $45/ Members Only

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Come and hangout with other comic artists, play comics games and go home with a sample zine of comics.

Drop in, no registration is needed.

Free and open to the public (youth 10yrs to 17yrs only), snacks are provided.

Join other creative enthusiasts and learn how to design, layout, and print your project from the computer. Adobe InDesign allows users to put together text, images, and other designs on the page quickly and efficiently.

Cost: $30 members/$45 members

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Learn to set movable lead type and print on a table-top hand press in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historical process. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100-year-old equipment! Successful completion of this one-day class allows IPRC members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing!

Cost: $55/Members Only
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In part one of this class, the focus will be on making reusable, good quality screens used for making paper or textile prints. The screens made in this class are 10″x12″ which are a perfect size for zine and book covers! Supplies include, stretcher bars, professional quality mesh, degreaser, duct tape and staple guns.

In the second part of the day, the focus will be on printing a hand cut stencil image using the screen that was just built in the previous workshop. Stencils will be made using sticker paper and exacto knives and will be printed through the screen. You will need to bring a high contrast B&W image (no larger than 8×10) in which to make a stencil from as well as your own materials to print on, either paper or fabric. Ink will be provided.

$45 members only, $10 materials fee

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More info to follow.

Free and open to the public

Learn to set movable lead type and print on a table-top hand press in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historical process. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100-year-old equipment! Successful completion of this one-day class allows IPRC members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing!

$55 members only

register here:

Join other creative enthusiasts and learn how to design, layout, and print your project from the computer. Adobe InDesign allows users to put together text, images, and other designs on the page quickly and efficiently.

$30 members/$45 nonmembers register here: