Description
- Bed size (see Press Bed diagram) 20 x 39.3 Inches / 50.8 x 100cm
- The bed running length 74.6 Inches / 190cm
- Stand width – 61cm / 24 Inches
- Stand height
- A moveable stand (lockable) 90cm / 35 ½ Inches
- A static stand 76.5 / 30 Inches
- Stand depth – 61cm / 24 Inches
- Depth of press Including Star/round Wheel – 28 Inches / 75cm (not including tommy bars)
- Height of the press bed
- From the Floor with a moveable stand and lockable wheels 39.3 Inches / 100cm
- From the Floor with a static stand 35.3 Inches / 90cm
- Star wheel Size – 117cm / 46 Inches (we can make bespoke sizes also)
- Small round wheel – 36 Inches / 91.5 cm Diameter (optional upgrade)
- Large round wheel – 48 Inches / 123cm Diameter (optional upgrade)
Designed, used and built by real printmakers since 1980 – so great printmaking support available if needed.
🎨 Direct Drive, Geared and Motorised Etching Presses
🎨 Designed, Built, Engineered, and used by Dedicated Printmakers Since 1980
🎨 Available with 4-Inch or 6½-Inch Stainless Steel Top Rollers
🎨 Durable Powder-Coated Frame with a Palette of Over 150 Vibrant Colours
🎨 Equipped with No-Maintenance Bearings and Oil-Lite Bushings in All Moving Components
🎨 Includes a Reliable Registration Bed
🎨Includes a Superb Trespa Compact Resin 10mm thick Press Bed that is Indestructible
🎨 Options for Small or Large Round Wheels, with or without Handles
🎨 Incorporates Outstanding Registration Systems for multiplate and reductions
🎨 Includes Printing Runners and a Complimentary Blanket with Your Press Purchase
📞 Enjoy Lifelong Technical Support for Your Printmaking Journey
🎨 Available in 12 Standard Sizes and Bespoke
📏 Custom Press Sizes Tailored to Your Needs
👋🏼 Expertly Handcrafted in the United Kingdom
💰️ Flexible No-Interest Payment Plans Available
🚚 Multiple Delivery Options:
* Expert On-Site Delivery and Setup with Hands-On Printing Experience
* Reliable Courier Service for Secure Press Delivery
* Convenient Customer Pickup, with or without Workshop Options
* Worldwide Shipping to Bring Our Presses to You
Gordon Yapp, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists –
I have owned a Gunning No. 2 Studio press for over 12 years finding it easy to use producing consistent high quality prints – from etchings and embossing through to collograph and lino/woodcut work. As a professional artist/print maker I prefer a direct-drive press because I can feel how much pressure is being applied. This essential feeling is lost when using highly geared presses. I have witnessed enormous pressures being applied accidentally by whizzing a geared handle round and round when the press was not set correctly. So feel is an important part of the art of printmaking, following on from producing an impressive image on the plate. I learnt to print 70 years ago on an Albion Press at Bourneville Art College, being used to print lithographs on stones. Other colleges printed on roller presses which were enormously heavy and dangerous, because if the plate came out and dropped, it could cut your foot off. Modern fabricated Gunning presses are a great improvement – they still have all the printing qualities you need and more, but without the weight of castings. My friend David Gunning supplied an extra large star wheel at my request so that I can easily print up to A2 on a bed 51 x 102 cm (20″ x 40″). I recently moved my press into another studio with only one other person to help me. When I first had it, I was strong enough to move it on my own – having slid the bed out first. So it is portable.