Artfully Imperfect: Two Local Businesses Press On With Old School Screen-printing in the Digital Age

Two Cincinnati-area businesses are helping drive a resurgence of interest in screen-printing as an art form. While commercial printing becomes increasingly automated, the artist-entrepreneurs at DIY Printing in Walnut Hills and Powerhouse Factories in Newport collaborate with arts organizations to teach people how to use manual screen-printing presses to create posters, art prints, and T-shirts.

"There's a human intelligence in the way the inks are mixed, and there's a human touch to the press of the squeegee," said Aaron Kent, founder of DIY Printing.