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	<description>SAFER AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRINTMAKING PROCESSES, USING COMMON MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN EVERY COMMUNITY</description>
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		<title>Building your Own Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early designs for litho presses as shown in De Capo Press reprint of Senefelder’s book There have been questions on other forums asking for information on building ones&#8217; own press &#8211; etching or litho. I have heard of printmakers designing and building their own press more directed to how they print &#8211; whether they printed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Service Provider</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a number of reason I have chosen to get a new service provider and have had help from my son (who is an IT type) to make the move over. It is not as easy as the new provider claimed &#8211; maybe because of the special setup we have been using &#8211; but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of weeks, my forum has been overloaded with member registrations, which tend to be spams and introduction to porn sites and the like. Only a few actually post articles and links in the message, so most just join and do nothing. From their origins and funny names, they certainly seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat Surfaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ink Slabs Last week I broke the glass on my ink slab for the second time in 20 years. I have leather rollers for printing colors hanging from the floor joists just above the ink slab &#8211; somehow I managed to disturb one as I was reaching for something on the shelf. As I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complete Elimination of Metal Compounds from Mordant before Disposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been communicating with two European etchers who have been using my copper sulfate mordant for as long as ten years on zinc plates at large print studios. When it came to the disposal of the spent mordant, one group was told by a chemist to add sodium carbonate which would remove the zinc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chemistry of using Copper Sulfate Mordant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was alerted about a discussion on a blog forum concerning if the use of copper sulfate mordant was a good alternative to nitric acid. As I read the comments, I realized that was much confusion on the chemistry of using this safer mordant because either some had not studied thoroughly the articles available on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printing by Offset Using a Palm Press, Ozuka&#8217;s Baren or Even a Bottle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; A printer in Japanese has asked me more about how the palm press could be used to print small editions by offset on her kitchen table, so I agreed to discuss this technique. While there is information out there on how to print directly from plate to paper using the palm press, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD has become a DVD and now ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At long last this project has become possible with the release of Adobe Acrobat 9 pro. This allowed Adobe Flash to be used for the video clips I have inserted into the PDF format. Why use PDF instead of HTML &#8211; or even Director? I purchased Macromedia&#8217;s Director a few years ago in the hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My DVD is finished and finally available.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are interested in the CDRom, which has now become a DVD with too much data to fit on a CD, it can be purchased though PayPal in the Main Menu. I am having a problem of publishing blogs using Windows Live Writer, so this is just a short note to let printmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Pin Registration System</title>
		<link>http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While giving a workshop in Ireland, I talked about the advantages of using registration pins for the most accurate method that I know of, but the cost of a proper registration punch is beyond the means of most printmakers. While it is possible to construct a good system using common two or three hole paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etching Copper Plates with Cupric Chloride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was surprised to discover that several amateur electronic workers were etching their copper circuit boards with cupric chloride instead of ferric chloride like in the past. It turns out that this chemical can be regenerated easily with the addition of oxygen from hydrogen peroxide or other oxygen containing chemicals. The electronic industry had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Me Developing the Copper Sulfate Mordant</title>
		<link>http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1991-2, I was teaching a first year printmaking class, eventually getting to intaglio in February. When I asked the students to purchase a sheet of zinc from the bookstore, a girl came to me very upset as she could not afford the metal at this time of the school year. Was there some cheaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results on New Mordant Tests</title>
		<link>http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Results have been encouraging with the new mordant I have working on.  It etches the three common metals used by printmakers, with zinc dissolving the fast and copper the slowest. While there seems to a number of ways to mix a suitable mordant, I have decided to make a stock solution that will work best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research into a Safer Mordant for Copper Plates</title>
		<link>http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been testing my new mordant for copper plates and here are some results. I have gone through the usual line work using Ferstmans’ hard/soft ground that is on my university website. That all worked fine, but the true test is the use of toner washes that print as a positive, just as drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With a Tesla Coil?</title>
		<link>http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Semenoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, I have been in steady communications with Jerry Larson, the man responsible at 3M in the 60&#8217;s to get commercial waterless lithography started. He has been of great help lately with me trying to come up with a simpler, cheaper method of making positive waterless photo plates. I wish [...]]]></description>
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