1. Printing techniques
We are designing a horror film poster
and exploring different printing
techniques. We recently made a lino
print.

2. Lithography
• Lithography was invented in the 1798 by a
German Aloys Senefelder. It was popular in
the 1890s with colour prints by a few artists
for example Pierre Bonnard.

3. Advantages and disadvantages of
lithography
Advantages
• An advantage of lithography can be a very fast
way of printing. It is also a unique printing
technique.
Disadvantages
• A disadvantage is that the printing is not high
quality. And is very time consuming.

4. Offset lithography
• Offset lithography is a huge printing technique
that is found in factory's. It is very expensive
and it is a very big process.

5. Advantages and disadvantages of
offset lithography
Advantages
• The advantages of offset lithography are it is
cheap if use it in bulk. Can produce millions of
copy's per day.
Disadvantages
• The disadvantages of offset lithography is very
loud in the factory's and you cant produce it at
home.

6. Lino printing
• Lino printing is a handmade technique that
can be used to make personal or unique cards
• birthday cards
• get well soon cards
• Birthday invitations
• Album covers
• You don’t need a factory you can create one at
home.

7. Advantages and disadvantages of lino
printing
Advantages
• It is a cheap and easy process. after making a lino
cut you will have a unique print that no one else
has it is also good for making a handful of copy's.
Disadvantages
• If you make a mistake while cutting the lino you
will have to start the whole process again. if you
were making a lot of copies it would not be ideal
to use lino printing because it would take along
time to create.

8. Making a lino print
• Drawing – we are designing a horror film
poster and exploring different printing
methods. We were doing lino cutting on
Friday. so then we were asked to draw an
image that we would be able to use as part of
our horror poster. We both looked on Google
images for inspiration and we decided on a
knife and a cross, so then we drew on a piece
of paper the knife and cross that we was
inspired by.

9. tracing
• Tracing – when we got to our lino cutting
lesson we watched a video on YouTube of
someone making a lino cutting and went
through health and safety for example to cut
away from your hand as the lino cutter is very
dangerous, we then got tracing paper.

10. transferring
• Transferring the tracing - I stuck sellotape to
the tracing paper onto the piece of paper that
we drew our picture on. I drew steadily with a
soft pencil so that the lines were not harsh
and rip through the tracing paper. I then
turned the tracing paper over and stuck it with
sellotape on a lino cut then I scribbled over
the traced lines with a hard pencil which
made the lines of the drawing appear on the
lino cut after I removed the tracing paper.

11. Cutting a lino
• Making a lino cut – I got a v shaped lino cutter
and made sure I cut away from my hand to
make sure I did not hurt myself and follow the
health and safety regulations, I used the v
shaped lino cutter because I had thin lines, if I
had thick lines or wanted to cut away a lot of
lino then I would have used a u shaped lino
cutter. I cut away the lines carefully to make
sure I did not cut away incorrect lines.

12. Final picture
• Making the final picture – I put some water based
ink onto a canvas and rolled a roller on top
making sure the ink was spread evenly around.
After I rolled the roller onto the lino cut and
made sure there was not too much ink as it
would go into the lines so the picture would not
print .I carefully placed a piece of paper on the
inked lino cutting and pressed it down with a
spoon, so the ink would not smudge. Lastly I
carefully lifted the piece of paper slowly off the
lino cut and left it to dry on the drying rack.

13. Laser printing
• Laser printing is a printer that focuses a laser
beam to form images that are transferred
onto paper electronically. A advantage of
laser printing is you can make a lot of copies
but a disadvantage of it is it would take a long
time to print a lot of copies.

14. Advantages and disadvantages of
laser printing
Advantages
• It is Quick and affordable in a home. You can
make multiple copy's.
• Disadvantages
• It only produces standard sizes. It is also not
the best quality. Ink cartridges cost a lot of
money so it is not good for a lot of copy's.