Problems with clear plastic plate

- thickness made it difficult to take through the printing press, this also meant that the paper i was printing onto tended to crease which left my final print look unprofessional.

when coming back to using the same plate, i found that the plate had itself creased/buckled slightly which left perminiant lines/cracks in the plate which inevitably showed up on every print i did after.

testing asotate:
though i have already etched into 3 of the 6 prints ready to take through the drypoint process i was not happy with the results i got from using the thick clear plastic plate. so i have tried to think of other clear plate material i could use to etch onto. i did a quick test etch onto a piece of asotate, i did originally think of this material to etch onto, but i thought it would maybe be to thin to withstand being etched onto and also be to thin to take through the print press to leave a impression, however when testing this out i found that it worked fine! it also was a lot easier to wipe away the excess ink, unlike the other plate.