PRINT PRODUCTION PROCESS

Hand PrintingEtching• Etching is a form of printing. It is defined as a process of using

strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal.

• When is making an Etching the most common surfaces are zing and copper plates. Zinc is less expensive, and copper is harder and gives a very beautiful line.

• The process of making an etching consist in draw with needle onto a copper or zinc plate that has been covered with an acid resistant wax. After, the plate is immersed in acid, which eats the surface exposed by the lines of the drawing. The depth of the etching is controlled by the amount of time the acid bite the metal. Those lines hold the ink, and when the plate is applied to moist paper, the design transfers to the paper providing a finished print.

Advantages and disadvantages of Etching printing.

Advantages:

Etching is quicker.

You don’t need use the print for print.

Everybody can make it.

The artist needn’t many tools.

Disadvantages:

You must follow all the steps to get a good finished.

Intaglio Intaglio is a printing technique in which the image is

incised into a surface and this incised line holds the ink.

Copper or zinc are the plates used as surface and the incisions are created by intaglio, drypoint, aquatint, mezzopoint.

Linocut

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum mounted on a is used for the relief surface.

Screen Printing

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image.

Woodcut is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.

Woodcut

Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the principle that oil and water do not mix. Printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface.

It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder as a cheap method of publishing theatrical works.[2][3] Lithography can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or other suitable material.

Lithography

Mechanical

Letterpress It is a technique of relief printing using a printing press. A

worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper.

Gravureis type of intaglio process, which consist engraving an image onto an image carrier.

Digital

Photocopying consist in copies document and other visual images quickly and cheaply.

Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics by passing a laser beam over a charged drum to define a differentially charged image.

Inkjet is a type of computer printing that creates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper, plastic, or other substrates.

Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout skills on a personal computer.

Digital Screen Printing refers to methods of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media.