I’ve been working on a setup for making my own prints, and I recently finished building a vacuum table. A vacuum table is basically a flat, perforated surface over a hollow chamber attached to a vacuum pump, achieving something like the opposite of an air hockey table. They allow you to print ink onto paper (or whatever) without the paper pulling up and sticking to the screen or shifting around and messing up your image. They are the much cleaner and not-as-potentially-brain-damaging alternative to holding your paper in place with, like, aerosol glue.
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