This document defines and describes various print production techniques, including hand techniques like etching, linocut, screen print, and woodcut. It also covers mechanical techniques such as letterpress and gravure, as well as digital techniques like photocopying, laser printing, and inkjet printing. For each technique, it provides a definition and discusses advantages and disadvantages.

1. Sophie Mason
PRINT PRODUCTION
TECHNIQUES

2. Print
Technique
Definition Advantage Disadvantage
Hand: Etching The art of preparing
etched plates,
especially metal
plates, from which
designs and pictures
are printed
the finished look is
very good
it takes ages to
produce
Hand: Linocut a print making
technique that is
used on relief
surfaces
It is created by using
a sharp knife, v
shaped chisel or
gouge
Hand: Screen
print
Hand: Woodcut An image is carved
into wood, in Europe
most commonly
used is beech wood.
quick and easy to
produce
hard to engrave small
text
Hand:
Lithography
Mechanical:
letterpress
Mechanical:
gravure
Mechanical:
screen process
Digital:
photocopying
Digital: laser
printing

3.  Definition
 The art of preparing etched plates, especially metal plates,
from which designs and pictures are printed
 Advantage
 the finished look is very good
 Disadvantage
 it takes ages to produce
HAND: ETCHING

4.  Definition
A print making technique that is used on relief surfaces
 It is created by using a sharp knife, v shaped chisel or
gouge
HAND: LINOCUT

5.  The ink is applied directly to the surface to be printed.
 A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil,
forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in
the open areas.
 It is also known as Screen Printing, silkscreen, seriography,
and serigraph
HAND: SCREEN PRINT

6.  Definition
 An image is carved into wood, in Europe most commonly
used is beech wood.
 Advantage
 quick and easy to produce
 Disadvantage
 hard to engrave small text
HAND: WOODCUT

7.  Lithography is where you use a stone to print on a smooth
surface.
 Invented in 1796
 Can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another
suitable material
HAND: LITHOGRAPHY

8.  Letterpress is the oldest form of printing.
 In this method, a surface with raised letters is inked and
pressed to the surface of the printing substrate to reproduce
an image in reverse. Typically, metal type has been used but
other possibilities include carved wood or stone blocks.
 letterpress was the predominant printing method for 500
years.
MECHANICAL: LETTERPRESS

9.  Gravure is a printing method in which an image is applied to a
printing substrate by use of a metal plate mounted on a
cylinder. Unlike other processes, gravure uses a depressed or
sunken surface for the desired image. The image to be
reproduced is etched into the metal plate, sometimes with the
use of a laser . The metal plate is bathed in ink during the
process and then wiped clean before application to the
substrate.
MECHANICAL: GRAVURE

10.  a photographic reproduction of written, printed, or graphic
work
 Using a photocopier to create an exact copy of a document or
artwork.
DIGITAL: PHOTOCOPYING

11. 
 Laser printing: A printer that uses a laser to produce an image
on a rotating drum before electrostatically transferring the
image to paper.
DIGITAL: LASER PRINTING

12.  Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that creates a
digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper. Inkjet
printers are the most commonly used type of printer,[1] and
range from small inexpensive consumer models to very large
professional machines that can cost tens of thousands of
dollars
INKJET PRINTING