Intaglio Printmaker Competitors

Daler-Rowney’s reputation as a manufacturer of fine art materials dates back over 240 years. Inspiring creativity since 1783, our aim is to enable everyone to be creative. Formed through the merger of the Daler Board Company and the George Rowney Company, Daler-Rowney brings together a shared heritage of British manufacturing expertise and innovation in artists’ materials. This legacy continues to shape our commitment to consistent quality and trusted performance for artists worldwide. Artists are at the centre of everything we do. We develop, produce and deliver materials that support creativity at every level, from first experiments through to professional practice. With manufacturing sites in the UK and the Dominican Republic, we combine traditional craftsmanship with modern production techniques across a wide range of fine art materials, including acrylics, oils, watercolours, brushes, papers and sketchbooks. Since 2016, Daler-Rowney has been part of the F.I.L.A. Group, enabling access to a global portfolio of leading creative and educational brands alongside our own established ranges. Our purpose is simple: to make art accessible through quality, innovation and reliable materials for artists everywhere.

Speedball is an American company that manufactures Art Materials from Screen Printing and Block Printing to Pottery Wheels. The company, first famous by its dip pens, has expanded its range of products to other art areas such us printmaking, ceramics, metal leafing, painting and high quality artist paper. In 1899 C. Howard Hunt formed his own company and established it in Camden, New Jersey. The "Speedball" pen was developed and patented by sign letterer Ross F. George of Seattle. This pen had a square-tipped pen could make broad and thin lines. George took the patent to the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company in 1915. Till this day, each nib is split, ground and assembled by hand in Statesville, North Carolina. Your art begins with Speedball - America’s leading manufacturer of the highest quality of artist products - unequaled for quality, safety and ease-of-use.

We will deliver the right product for your work at an honest price. We’re painters too. Count on us to put our heads, hearts, hands and everything we’ve learned into everything we do. We promise to be kind to you, the team of people here at Gamblin, and the planet we share. We promise to inform and inspire you, just as your work and ideas inspire and inform us. And we’re always here to help you bring your best self to your biggest painting challenge. We promise to never stop moving painting forward. If there’s a better way, we will find it. We always do. Always forward. Together.