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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 723970, member: 19065&quot;]Engraving is far from a dead art. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Bureau of Engraving and Printing even has an apprentice program in Washington DC, which I believe takes a minimum of two years to seven to complete. They occassionally post openings to recruit new talent for working with designs engraved on steel plates for US currency to this day. There is also philatelic (stamps) and sigillography (seals) design engravers yet in demand in this modern world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many Fine Arts programs throughout the US and around the world still offer majors in terminal degrees of Printmaking. They teach the fundamentals of copper, steel, zinc plate engraving, intaglio (etching), photo, plate and stone lithography, seriography (silkscreen), wood/lino relief print techniques and everything in between, from paper making, book binding, mixing techniques, using tools, acids, chemicals, etc. You name it. There are art schools and there are schools of the art that teach these techniques, mainly found in the Fine Arts departments these days, some are more conceptual/art related while others are more commercial/technical in skills taught. There are presses across the globe that specialize within techniques and master printers still work with artists to develop editions, printed books and unique creations applying seriously high levels of skilled printmaking craft.&nbsp; The above is all apart from mentioning type high printing and tradtional typeset which in some programs is taught separately in the commercial art and that of graphic design education.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have attached a Word doc that I kept from the last opening at the BEP I came across back in 2006 for a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: black">[FONT=&amp;quot]&#039;Picture Engraver (Banknote) Apprentice&#039; to give you some idea of what they look for in a candidate.[/FONT]</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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