 His prints are made on a custom-made English press using four-color, hand-engraved copper plates, which produces contours and colors with an antique appearance.He mixes his own ink and hand-pulls each print.Victoria Donohoe, writing in the "Philadelphia Inquirer," described Klabunde as an artist who elevates printmaking because he takes great interest in exploiting the special qualities that make etching an expressive medium with unique characteristics rather than using it, say, only as a method of reproducing pencil drawings.