PressWorks

Terminal-Native Print Production

Active March 2026

Last updated March 2026

I came up in print shops. USA Tees in Brooklyn, Atlas Embroidery in Fort Lauderdale. Halftone screens at specific angles, registration dialed in by hand, ink density controlled plate by plate. Then I spent 20 years in Adobe, and then my brain stopped matching the interface.

CMYK Process separation: four print passes on a white canvas, halftone screening visible at plate level

So now I run a press from the terminal. PressWorks is a bash script wrapping ImageMagick. Sixteen operations, three presets, every parameter exposed. I can separate an image into four channels, adjust the screening angle on the cyan plate independently, shift its registration by one pixel, and recombine. Same logic as a press floor, just running in code.

Every texture on this site came through PressWorks. The Art Department handles layout. PressWorks handles ink.