1. PRINT
PRODUCTION
Print Technique Definition Advantage Disadvantage
Hand: Etching metals like copper or acid to etch It is an old method ‘500 because it is so old there may be
the print onto the metal. years’ therefore it is newer, quicker ways to do this method.
trustworthy.
Hand: Linocut a cut made from a design cut There is only 2 stages to You have to have wood to be able to
into linoleum mounted on a block doing this method. mount the linoleum.
of wood.
Hand: Screen print a print made by the silkscreen It’s a good quality of It is a difficult process.
process. printing.
Hand: Wioodcut a carved block of wood from It is simple and uses It is not as simple as photo copying.
which prints are made. recyclable materials.
Hand: Lithography a person who works at It is a quick way to get lots It needs someone with the ability to
lithography. of prints. operate it.
Mechanical: letterpress the process of printing from It focus’s on letters and using plates is easier than this method.
letters or type in relief, rather uses something different –
than from intaglio plates or relief.
planographically.
Mechanical: gravure an intaglio process of It is simple and easier than You have to be fully aware of
photomechanical printing, such some other methods. photogravure and rotogravure, which is
as photogravure or rotogravure. harder.
Mechanical: screen silk-screen printing a method of It is really good quality The process is a lot more complex than
printing using a fine mesh of silk, because it is silk and also eg. ‘digital injet’ which only requires a
process nylon, etc, treated with an has a coating. direct print from a computer.
impermeable coating except in
the areas through which ink is
subsequently forced onto the
paper behind .
Digital: photocopying where you copy the original It is simple and easy to get the quality may not be up to a good
piece as many times as you want. as many as you want. standard.
Digital: laser printing uses a laser to form dot-matrix It has the ability to produce It is a very complicated and long
patterns and an electrostatic a range of graphics and process which may take a while and
process to fuse metallic particles fonts. could be rather fiddly as you have to
to paper a page at a time: use a laser.
capable of producing a variety of
character fonts, graphics, and
other symbols.
Digital: injet Fine art digital inkjet printing is It is very simple and easy The quality may not be as good as
printing from a computer image for anyone to do as it is on
file directly to an inkjet printer as a computer.
a final output
Digital: desktop the design and production of It uses specialist software The quality may not be as good as the
publications by means of to achieve the best results mechanical screen process because it is
publishing specialized software enabling a and gives good quality and on a microcomputer.
microcomputer to generate is simple.
typeset-quality text and graphics.