[2] It features traditional printing, editioning rooms, steel facing services, stone preparation, photo lithography plate production, and risograph printing.
[1] Robert Blackburn first established a workshop in 1947 in his loft apartment in Chelsea.
It formally incorporated into a not-for-profit organization called "Printmaking Workshop" in 1971, which lasted until 2001.
[4] Before his 2003 death, Blackburn encouraged the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts to establish a new organization to provide similar services to artists in New York.
The foundation agreed and opened new Printmaking Workshop, named in Blackburn's honor, in September 2005.