What it is for
A print log. One record per work, holding two different things: the making of it, as a
diary of proofs, and the edition, as a grid you tick off as impressions leave the studio.
The proofing diary
Add an entry each time you pull a proof. Date it, say what it was — working proof, state
proof, BAT — and write what went wrong and what to change. That last part is the whole point.
Anyone can remember the print; nobody remembers that the third pass needed less ink.
The edition grid
Set an edition size and the grid appears, numbered 1/25 through 25/25. Tap a square and pick
its status. Artist's and printer's proofs sit in their own strip underneath, numbered
separately, as convention has them.
Inks
Name each ink, set a swatch, and note anything about it. If you mixed it in
Mixing Slab, paste the link it gave you: the swatch sets itself, and tapping the link
later reopens Mixing Slab with that colour ready to re-solve against whatever is on your shelf
now. Which is the point — the tubes change, the target does not.
Photos
Up to three per diary entry. Every photo is shrunk to 512 pixels on its longest edge before
it is stored, because a browser's storage is small and a phone photograph is not.
These are reminders, not archives. The good photograph of the finished print belongs
in your photo library. This one is here so you recognise the record at a glance.
Pricing
Materials, plus your hours at your rate, plus a margin. It gives two per-print figures. The
first divides everything across the whole edition. The second divides it across the number you
actually expect to sell — which is the truthful one, and the one the suggested price is built
on.
Getting it onto paper
Press Export this record and your browser's print dialogue opens. To get a PDF rather
than paper, choose Save as PDF where the printer name usually goes.
The edition grid prints with both colour and letters, so it still reads photocopied or in
black and white. There is a switch to drop the colour if you would rather not spend the ink.
Where your records live
In this browser, on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is no account, and nothing
is tracked. The other side of that bargain: clearing your browser data clears this too,
and there is no copy anywhere else.
So use Backup & storage now and again. It writes one file holding everything,
which restores into any browser on any device. It is the only way your records outlive this
phone.
What it deliberately does not do
- Track sales. An impression can be marked sold, but there is no price, buyer or
invoice. That is a different tool, and it is better built once printmakers have said what
shape they need.
- Sync between devices. The backup file is the way across.
- Store photographs at full size. See above — the browser has nowhere to put them.
Putting it on your phone
This is a proper installable app, not just a bookmark. Tap Install app at the top, or
on an iPhone use Share then Add to Home Screen. It then opens full screen and works without a
signal.
Your records carry over, because the installed app uses the same browser storage as the tab
you installed it from.
Made by
Martin Snelling, a printmaker. Free, no accounts, nothing tracked. If it helps, you can
buy the creator a coffee.