Handmade digital printmaking mangles elements of hand-pulled processes including screen and block printing with a form of xerography. Using a technique where a single sheet of paper is put through a multifunction printer several times, where it inherently contains some registration error, results in a sense of analogue serendipity in a digital world.

CMYK Prints: An image is masked into a number of single colour digital plates, typically between 5 to 10. At this stage, the digital plates are akin to screen print frames. Each digital plate is then split into its CMYK colour mix, thus creating between 15 and 30 digital plates. For example, areas of Yellow Ochre would have the following three masked plates of 25% magenta, 98% yellow and 11% black [cyan not required]. These processes are similar to methods used in offset printing. Each digital plate is then printed once creating a single masked colour paper plate of varying depths of cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

Now for creating the actual print: The first paper plate is photocopied onto a blank sheet of paper. The newly printed on sheet is placed back into the paper draw ready to be printed on with the image of the second paper plate. This process continues until all paper plates have been layered onto the single sheet. The overlaying of the CMYK inks ‘mix’ on the paper to create the desired colour, similar to watercolor and oil paint glazing techniques.

Tonal Prints: An image is masked into into a number of tonal digital plates. A single colour is selected from either cyan, magenta, yellow or black (cyan tends to work best) and a percentage colour depth is chosen, usually around 10%. Only that colour at that percentage is printed each time. Light areas receive one layer of ink, dark areas receive multiple layers of ink, again, similar to a watercolour technique.

Digital Block Printing: Same as CMYK Prints except whole colours are printed at once. So instead of, for example Yellow Ochre split into 3 plates it would be printed once using the equivalent hex code #E2AA05.

Image Overprints: A digital image is printed once then photocopied onto a second sheet of paper. The copy is then scanned onto the original. The over printed original is then scanned onto the copy until original and copy are indistinguishable.

Object Overprints: A scanner becomes a camera. An object is placed on a scanner bed where it is photocopied. The photocopy is then placed back in the draw ready for the next object to be copied. CMYK, Digital Block or Image Overprint Printing methods may also be employed on the final copy.