Placing ink on the printing slab.Using hand-operated or power-driven machines and presses to make prints.Cleaning up the printing slab, press bed and plate using various solvents.

This is a compilation of the articles about 3D printing that have appeared in Futureminds over the past three years.

They span designing for 3D printing, types of printers, teaching schemes and safe use of these machines in a school.

In this issue we rev up for the Fomula 1 STEM challenge and examing the new cutting edge of IT Art and Design. There is also a continued update on the new GCSE specifications as well as regular articles on 3D printing and health and safety.

The autumn 2017 edition of Futureminds has articles from Ultimaker, Celtic Kilncare Ltd, British Nutrition Foundation, the Food Teachers Centre and the Dorset Studio School.