Student works on print project

Facilities & Resources

Printmedia Facilities and Resources

Facilities and tools for the Department of Printmedia include:

  • Individual graduate studios with 24-hour access
  • Printmaking facility covering more than 11,000 square feet
  • Six Intaglio/Relief presses
  • Fifteen screen printing stations with two large format vacuum tables
  • Four lithography impression presses 
  • Offset studio with two Heidelberg offset presses, two risograph printers, and finishing equipment
  • Darkrooms for screenprinting, lithography, and intaglio
  • Artists’ books/bookbinding studio
  • Fully equipped Macintosh computer lab with workstations, scanners, and large/medium format printers
  • Access to laser cutters, 3D printers and scanners, CNC routers and other advanced digital and analog technologies
  • Access to highly regarded collections of prints and multiples in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at SAIC and the Glore Print and Drawing Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago