How to transfer text onto Lino

I've tried a few ways of transferring text from a photocopy or drawing onto lino and marmoleum to use in a print. Hope this helps...

1. Photocopy text onto paper.
2. Use masking tape to hold the page in place on the lino..Remember to attach it backwards!
3. Place a sheet of blue carbon paper from an invoice book in between the photocopy and the lino.
4. Use a pen to redraw the text.
5. The image line will be blue, but faint.

Better & easier is: instead of blue carbon paper, use a soft graphite pencil (8b) on paper & use this face down between the photocopy and the lino.Much easier.

TOP TIP: Your text should be backwards on your lino, as printing it later on to paper will reverse your image.