Update 2021
short:
I am liquidating my inventory of hand-press prints and handmade paper. And also extraordinary original amate art (amate is First Nations tree-bark paper, nowadays made in only one place on Earth, by the inheritors of Native traditions and crafts)

long:
I've been in Etsy for 5 years. 73 sales, that is about once a month. 25 of those were $1 samples that I used to make, at a loss. Not an excuse, I'm not for excuses. Simple fact is, I stopped paying attention to Etsy, and somehow missed notification of a few REAL sales. Then I was late, late, and enormously contrite and ashamed: I believe in EXCELLENT service. So, I would send extras (at a loss) as an apology. While people have been so far quite gracious, that is no way to run a business.
Maybe I should close my Etsy (a saying from where I come from "quien tenga tienda, que la atienda," "whomever has a store must mind it."
I haven't taken care of my store, properly, and it's unlikely I will, in the short term. For one thing, I would REALLY need to up my social media presence, which I am no good at, and for which I really have no time for a while.

Life changes, all of them good so far, require that I drop my "Renaissance Man" persona, and "grow up," to better focus. There are several things that I MUST really, really put my mind and my effort on. Art, and papermaking itself, will just have to take a little step back. Others, like social media, will be essentially shut down.
Hopefully i'll return to art and crafts with MUCH strength, later, who knows when. But for now, while I REALLY will strive to look at Etsy more often so I don't "drop" some sale, I will sort of wind down my activities, while trying to sell my inventory because, ahem, I do need the money... (oh, I had such GREAT projects for 2020! I know I am not the only one who has had to "pivot" and change and grow new ways of dealing with life. I'm glad, very blessed, that my "changes" are all for the good. Focus, in itself, might pay of enormously some time later)

One of those "major things" that I must focus on is helping a colleague and art collaborator, Bonifacio Trinidad La Loma, an amatero in San Pablito, Mexico. Amate is tree-bark paper, a craft that is still made today the same way it has been for hundreds of years, by inheritors of First Nation traditions, in ONE tiny village in the deep high valleys of Mexico. Long story short, for generations the amate makers have depended on middlemen, that then resell amate art, after several steps, to tourists. The amateros make very, very little money. With Covid, tourism has pretty much shut down, the whole ecosystem, which was frail and very far from providing some Fair Wage to the artisans broke down.
Having worked with Mr. Trinidad to make exclusive art for my "store," that I will focus on, because he really needs some income. I feel it is my duty to do what I can in this sense. If I cannot help everybody, with the advantages of me living in the State I will try to help this one family, in getting some honest income from honest work.

Then we'll see. Will I make more SPECTACULAR prints on AMAZING handmade paper? Perhaps, hopefully, maybe. I do need the money :-) also, but, thanks to a lieftime of careful saving and moderate expenses, with good clients-friends, I manage to eke out a bit of income from my "day job" as a VERY part-time computer coder, and mostly ends meet. (I'm good at that kind of work, but totally terrible at getting new clients and presenting myself as someone that you should hire)
So there. See you, now with extraordinary amate work, and my paper and prints, whatever is left of those, and later, as life brings us back along.

Original "policies" from 2016:
To make good prints you need good paper. And good tools. And skill.

I really, really love engravings that are a few hundred years old. Of course I have very few of those, so, what to do? Make some! Just like they did it back then, but use technology where it doesn't get in the way of the handmade.

What I share is what I want: prints that have the right feel that only handmade paper can give, and that sort of relief, embossed texture of real block print in a real press. Something that takes you back to "being there", when paper and ink were a craft.
This is no giclée (fancy name for inkjet print). Definitely this is not modern lithography (fancy name for offset), which is what most "reproductions" are. My prints come from solid engraved blocks, inked by hand, set in a top press (aka Gutenberg press), where each print gets its own time. On neutral paper that I made myself, alkaline-buffered, 100% cotton, of quality corresponding to "permanent" or "archival" standards.

why so cheap? simple: I need to make some money ASAP.

Prices will go up to normal very soon.
Long story short, I have been working at this 6 months already, only now finally ready to sell. If you like this kind and style of prints you know very well already that prices for something of this genre, even industrial reproductions, go for more to much more (I have not seen a reproduction of this quality offered in the internet for less than $600). I am betting that maybe someone will buy everything that I have right now, to resell to decorators of fancy doctor's offices.
Fine by me, I will then be able to catch my breath.

How much are these worth?

Search "replica of antique engraving", and you tell me.

Then we have the dimensional, high relief, 3D champ levé art, which I sort of fell into by accident, when, who knows why, I laid a freshly formed sheet of paper on an engraved block. When the paper dried, the image looked fabulous, visible light and shadow of a seemingly carved surface, alive in different ways depending on the angle of the light. But these take too much work, too much time. Generally I can use an engraved plate only once a day. Alas, people understand the "value" of prints, champ levé art is too innovative to have a market yet. Maybe when I am famous :-)

(Note August 29 2016: I will stop editing this for now, it's getting too long and I need to start selling. so, if you have any question, please contact me)

My story:

About 4 years ago I started in earnest to make prints, intending to pick up from years of experience with ink and paper, focusing on making reproductions of late medieval and other antique art. I felt quite frustrated by the cost of paper - everything else was sort of working fine, but those prints on the art shop paper that I could afford simply "didn't feel right". I dropped the idea, got into other businesses of which some worked a little, most didn't, and then by late 2015 I was again going for my printing press. Again it seemed like this wasn't going to work after all, the cost of good paper would eat any profit I could make, when I had the bright idea, what if I make my own paper?

Well, it turns out that making REALLY good paper (nothing else would do for what I wanted) is very much not easy. Not cheap either. Took me several months to figure things out. Then I got stuck with success. See, in moving along I had figured out some serious improvement on the ways and tools for handmade paper. So I "had" to apply for a patent. Until I had my paperwork done I could only sell the paper I made before those inventions, which wasn't much. Now the application is finally in, so I can make excellent paper and sell it, and I can use that excellent paper to make prints.

Because I can afford to have that top-quality support for my prints, everybody wins. Great affordable reproductions that feel like the real thing. BTW, the art is public domain, meaning, yes, you can copy the prints in any way you want, legally, no need to ask me or anyone for permission. Things are a little bit more complicated for the 3D artwork, just contact me if you want to copy those.

Are these real? are they fakes of antiques?

If you mean, are my Chronicles of Nuremberg prints just like the original, the answer is no, but "almost". The printing process is pretty much the same that was used in 1493. Thus the result is almost too good... The dimensions are as close as I have found to those of the first edition, because I really have no access to the originals they are not "exact duplicates".

Are they, then, "fakes"? Definitely NOT. My paper is good, but it is "woven", not "medieval laid". That is, it looks like paper made after 1750 or so. No honest antique dealer or collector who knows paper could possibly get confused or try to confuse others. However, behind a glass and hanging on a wall, these look almost as if you had a time machine - or too much money for your own good, getting a page from an ancient book. Yes, they are real block prints. Some people say that they look "too new". What you receive generally looks as if it had come out of Anton Koberger's shop a few weeks ago (except if you look closely at the paper and notice it's not laid paper). I don't like to artificially "age" my stuff. If you like that kind of look, be my guest and pour some coffee or Cocacola on them.

Woven, medieval laid? what is that?
It has to do with the kind of mould screen that is used to manufacture paper. Older paper was made on a screen with long wires. in the 1700s some began to use a woven screen that looks like fabric. That is what I use. It's very easy to recognize one type of paper from the other if you know what to look for, just search the internet for "laid paper". It makes no difference for the print. A laid screen of the size that I need would cost more than $3,000. I'll get there eventually, and then probably use a watermark with the year or something to discourage people reselling them as "authentic". Otherwise it will look too much like the original to be safe... Please, do not try to sell these as real antiques. They are not. I know you could cut away the signature and embossing. Please don't (it's quite OK to cover them when framing, though, if you want). Think of these instead as what they really are: totally real 21st century block print art made by hand on real Texan handmade paper. That by itself makes them quite rare! These are better than any facsimile that I know of done during the last 200 years.

And at least for now, cheap cheap cheap.