3 Editorial Guest opinion by Kathan Brown
4 Letters News and views from readers
5 Printmakers' diary Winter print news

PROFILES
6 Artist Hilary Daltry ARE explains her classical inspiration to Pryle Behrman
8 Printer Mark Balakjian has printed Lucian Freud's ethcings since 1985. Tessa Sidey interviews him
10 International Printmaking in Israel endures in troubled times, writes Hannah Levinsky-Koevary
12 Artist Colin Self's work attacks consumerism and Cold War miltarism, writes Ben Tufnell

STOP PRESS & LISTINGS
15 News Deciphering Langlands and Bell; multiple choice at the Lowry, Salford; and Russian retreat
18 Listings Print exhibtions and opportunities in the UK and from around the world

TECHNICAL
22 Digital Tessa Holmes on combining traditional hand cut stencils and computer processes
24 Print definitions Keith Howard expalins the terminology of innovative intalgio techniques

PRACTICAL
26 Print workshop Mike Sims reports on Northern Print Studio, now celebrating its tenth birthday
28 Commissioning Judith Palmer talks to artist s and top authors about prints as book illustrations

REGULARS
30 Book reviews Printmaking in 18th - century France 20th- century Germany and a new guide to etching
31 Artists' books Emma hill ont he new American gothic of Maddy Rosenberg and A C Berkheiser
32 Resources Workshops, studios, services, contacts
34 Subject Matters Printmaking Today prizewinner Huma Mushtaq on art and travel