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This is a perfect press for any level of printmaker. All our etching presses are workhorses that are custom-built and designed by printmakers for printmakers. A trustable, no-maintenance etching press that enables you to make the best relief and intaglio prints possible making the fine art of printmaking a pure pleasure.
This model comes with a compact resin printing bed and it works perfectly with the small wheel, stand with lockable wheels and the registration bed or you can have it as a benchtop.
An ideal choice for printmakers at every skill level. Our etching presses are thoughtfully designed by printmakers, for printmakers. They are dependable workhorses that allow you to focus and get the best prints possible.
This direct drive press feels wonderful to pull through with the small wheel and moves so easily with the lockable wheels on the stand, or you can have it as a benchtop press.
1 x printing blanket and 4mm thick runners are provided with every press we sell.
Whichever size of Gunning Etching press you choose, they all deliver exceptional printing quality, leaving you free to focus on your inking and plate-making.
Set the pressure in seconds and print any intaglio and relief plates to the best quality.
This Model has a 4-inch stainless steel top roller and the bed size is spacious giving you plenty of room to print A2-size plates. Have it as a bench top or with the stand. The Large wheel feels beautiful to pull through and the Trespa resin bed will give you the most beautiful print.
There are lots of choices to optimise your press so click here and go see your options.
This model is just like our standard No. 2 Gunning Etching press, apart from the Extra Large stainless steel 61/2 Inch top roller versus the 4-inch.
The large wheel paired with the Compact Resin bed that comes with the press makes this a brilliant press. Add the registration bed for perfect alignment.
No maintenance bearings, easy pressure setting, make your printmaking quick, easy simple and exceptional.
Like all our etching presses this is a workhorse. We have designed all our etching presses so they take care of themselves with oilite bushings in each moving part.
The custom self-contained 7:1 gearbox is attached to the large wheel and linked to the lower roller, allowing for smoother and more precise roller movement, enhancing your printing control and sensitivity.
Setting the pressure takes seconds and pulling through on high pressure is a dream.
Why not come and try our etching presses out at our gorgeous printmaking studios and Gallery? Bring your own plates or use ours.
This model has a brilliant large bed size, giving you more than enough room to print larger than A1 relief and intaglio plates. And like all our other etching presses, a Stainless steel top roller that comes in 4 or 61/2 Inches Diameter. The heavy-duty Powder-coated frame comes in standard black but you can choose from hundreds of custom colours to make your press individual.
Add on the registration bed and the large wheel for a beautiful pull-through or add the gears. This is a workhorse so you can just enjoy the printing.
To see more options follow this link or get in touch and discuss with one of our specialist printmakers (Jenny, Dave or Ellie)
This model Etching press has a 6 1/2-inch top roller and comes as standard with an excellent compact resin bed. This press prints larger than A1 size relief and intaglio plates to excellent standard.
Designed by a specialist printmaker for printmakers.
Add on the registration bed and the large wheel for a beautiful pull-through or have the gears with the small wheel. This is a workhorse so you can just enjoy the printing.
Get in touch and tell us what you are going to print so we can build you your perfect press.
All our Gunning Etching Presses are custom-built in Ironbridge. Designed by Printmakers for Printmakers. They are workhorses built to print all intaglio and relief plates to exceptional standard.
Used and loved since 1980 by Printmakers all over the world.
This model is geared and comes with our custom compact gearbox which is attached to the wheel and linked to the lower roller, allowing for smoother and more precise roller movement, enhancing your printing control and making it easy to both pull through and apply superb amounts of pressure.
This model is a massive, beautiful etching press. Not big enough? We make bespoke as well.
This size press will print AO-sized intaglio and relief plates easily. Just like all our models the compact resin bed prints like a dream and the registration makes positioning and registration a pleasure. Stainless Steel top rollers, no-maintenance bearings, direct drive, geared or motorised. Oilite bushings in all the moving parts. hundreds of colours to choose from and lifelong Technical Support Included.
This impressive Gunning Etching press is custom-made to order here in Ironbridge and if you need something even bigger, we offer custom sizes and colours too.
With the capacity to print AO-sized intaglio and relief plates, this model boasts a superb resin bed that ensures exceptional print quality. Enjoy the registration bed for precise positioning. Choose from 4-inch or 6 1/2 6-inch stainless Steel top rollers, no-maintenance bearings, and various drive options, including direct drive, geared, or motorised. The no-maintenance Oilite bushings in all moving parts guarantee durability.
Plus, our lifelong specialist printmakers Technical Support is always there for you.
Designed by Printmakers for Printmakers since 1980, all our Gunning Etching Presses are custom-built in Ironbridge. They are workhorses built to print all intaglio and relief plates. Used and loved since 1980 by Printmakers all over the world.
This huge etching press model is geared and comes with our custom compact gearbox which is attached to the wheel and linked to the lower roller, allowing for smoother and more precise roller movement, enhancing your printing control and making it easy to both pull through and apply superb amounts of pressure.
Designed by Printmakers for Printmakers since 1980
Plus, our lifelong specialist printmakers Technical Support is always there for you.
Our Gunning Etching Presses can print all Intaglio, Relief and Phonographic Plates, single colour, reductions and multi-plate prints.
From Intaglio plates – Photogravure, Aquatint Etchings, dry-points, Mezzotints, photo-etchings and engravings to all Relief plates like Lino, Woodblock, Wood Engraving, Collagraph and phonographic plates such as lithograph and offset printing plates and carborundum.
We have a beautiful range of Etching Press blankets and 1 x 80% unwoven wool blanket is included in the press price as well as a set of 4mm thick runners.
The 6 Inch Stainless Steel top roller presses have a gap of 8cm between the top roller and the bed and the 61/2 Inch stainless steel top roller presses have a gap of 3cm so what ever you want to print you can do.
We have incredible registration systems and the registration bed is second to none! Wipes clean and enables you to print perfectly on the paper every time.
And we run workshops in how to do all of the above so get in touch for more information or to book a workshop or press demonstration.
In 1980 the first Gunning Etching Press was designed and built by Dave Gunning BA (HONS) and have sold worldwide ever since.
Designed, built and used by dedicated printmakers for the past 43 years. A family run business with their love of printmaking at the heart of it.
When Dave came out of University there were no presses on the market that printed all plates to a remarkable standard, Dave wanted to print all kinds of plates – intaglio, relief and phonographic. After Dave designed and built one for himself a fellow printmaker used it and immediately wanted one for himself… and so the Gunning Etching Press business was born.
Now Sarah Morris and Jenny M-Gunning Dave’s daughter’s along with Jenny’s Husband and amazing staff, run the Gallery and printmaking studio in Ironbridge.
Jenny a life long specialist printmaker both uses and sells the Gunning Etching Presses and makes her own work, commissions and editions for other Galleries and publishing houses. As well as running workshops for all levels of printmakers, teachers, beginners and life long experienced printmakers.
Jenny’s Husband, a specialist engineer and printmaker, Dave MG took over the design, building and progression of the Gunning Etching Presses in 2018. He has taken the Gunning Etching press design, updated it and made it so that old models can be upgraded to geared versions on site as well as many other things like stainless steel top rollers, oilite bushings in all moving parts, powder coating the presses in any colour and our stunning gear box with the gear ratio of 7:1 making the presses easy to pull through. Our motorised Gunning Etching press is a dream to use – one finger push button and the press bed moves through the roller easily and at what ever speed you wish!
We continue to add to the design – as time goes by and engineering gets better so do we. Our etching presses are no -maintenance and we can build any size, geared, direct drive or motorised. Our registration systems are second to none. We make and sell our own range of Etching and relief Inks as well as our nitrile rubber hand and spindle rollers. We also make Aquatint boxes, hotplates and our very handy aquatint shelves. Everything for the printmaking studio, from the equipment to the materials to how to make the plate, ink, wipe, set the pressure on the press and print. We do it all to the best standard.
We don’t just design and build the machines we make our own work, exhibit in our own gallery as well as all over the world in major exhibitions and competitions and have work in major collections. Dave Gunning has work in major collections all over the world, naming a few the Queens private collection, Palace of Westminster and Houses of Parliament!
Want to know more – give us a call or email to chat to Jenny, Dave or Ellie about the Gunning Etching Presses, Aquatint Boxes, Hotplates, Workshops, Ironbridge Etching and Relief Ink, our Hand Rollers, Spindle Rollers, Commissions, Edition service or anything to do with Printmaking.
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