The document provides instructions for applying ink to a printing slab using a brayer. It describes rolling the brayer over the ink on the slab to evenly spread it out in a circular motion from top to bottom. It emphasizes getting the right amount of ink, which should have a crackling texture and not be too thin, thick, or ropey. Instructions are given for fixing ropey ink and applying a good base coat of ink to the printing block.
7. Do this as long as it takes to spread out the ink.
Keep up this circular motion
(top bottom lift top bottom lift…)
so the ink is spread evenly on the brayer as well as the slab.
37. Keep applying ink until the entire surface is coated with
with one color of ink. The ink should crackle.
You shouldn’t be able to see through the ink. The ink
shouldn’t be ropey. This is called a base coat.