During his long career as a playwright, a poet and a collector of proverbs in the Tudor era, John Heywood maintained durable work relationships with his three main printers - his brother-in-law William Rastell, Thomas Berthelet and Thomas Powell. These three collaborations gave different orientations to his presentation as an author in his printed work. My paper will deal with the articulation between author and printer and the issue of self-presentation in print through visual means.