Welcome to newly launched Printmakingblog! It is written by Dean Clark, who introduced himself in a comment on my post about new printmaker blogs. Dean is the president of Graphic Chemical & Ink Company, a major printmaking supplier in the U.S. whose products are widely used by schools and professional artists everywhere. While his blog looks like it will promote company products, it will also address subjects of interest to printmakers, such as the IMPACT international conference of printmakers, being held this year in Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland, beginning in late August. I had hoped to attend the second IMPACT conference in Helsinki in 2001 by timing my exhibition in Vaasa, Finland for that time, but it ended up being the following year.