The human printer

www.thehumanprinter.org
thehumanprinter@gmail.com

Technology is an integral aspect of modern day life, so much so that without it we may not be able to function. We have constructed these machines to aid our lives, making simple productions/tasks easier to accomplish. Though these development were intiated to benefit us they have also constricted and restrained not only the outcome of our productions but also the process we take to obtain the final result. Our environment is now scattered with machine made artefacts, computer developed images and autonomous interactions – which are all constructed under a set of rules and standards. We are losing the essence of human production and craft to the machine, resulting in a souless utilitarianism.

Unlike any other printer thehumanprinter creates unique, individual images each time it prints. Following the same process as a digital printer, thehumanprinter generates the printed product by hand. Throughout the printing process thehumanprinter assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer.