1. Print Technique Definition Advantage Disadvantage
Hand: Etching the act or process of making designs or pictures
on a metal plate, glass, etc., by the corrosive
action of an acid instead of by a burin.
It is an old method therefore it is trust worthy
as it is old there may be newer and quicker ways
to print
Hand: Linocut a cut made from a design cut into linoleum
mounted on a block of wood
there are only 2 stages if doing this method you have to have wood
Hand: Screen print a print made by the silkscreen process it’s a good quality of printing its difficult to process
Hand: Woodcut a carved block of wood from which prints are
made.
it is simple and uses good materials its not as simple as photocopying
Hand: Lithography the art or process of producing a picture, writing,
or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with
some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink
impressions from this as in ordinary printing
It’s a quick way to get lots of prints It needs someone to operate it
Mechanical: letterpress the process of printing from letters or type in
relief, rather than from intaglio plates or
planographically.
it focuses on letters using plates are easier than this method
Mechanical: gravure an intaglio process of photomechanical printing,
such as photogravure or rotogravure
its is quicker and easier to get as many as you
want
the quality may not be as good
Digital: photocopying where you copy the original piece over and over quick and easy not good quality
Digital: laser printing Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser
to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic
process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page
at a time: capable of producing a variety of
character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
able to print a range of graphics and fonts its complicated and a long process
Digital: desktop publishing the design and production of publications by
means of specialized software enabling a
microcomputer to generate typeset-quality text
and graphics.
it uses specialist software which mean it will be
good and professional and its simple to use
the quality mat not be as good
PRINT PRODUCTION

2. Hand printing
• is the process of applying colour to fabric in definite
patterns or designs. In properly printed fabrics the colour is
bonded with the fiber, so as to resist washing and friction.
Textile printing is related to dyeing but, whereas in dyeing
proper the whole fabric is uniformly covered with one
colour, in printing one or more colours are applied to it in
certain parts only, and in sharply defined patterns.
• In printing, wooden blocks, stencils, engraved plates,
rollers, or silkscreens can be used to place colours on the
fabric. Colourants used in printing contain dyes thickened
to prevent the colour from spreading by capillary attraction
beyond the limits of the pattern or design.

3. Digital printing
• The difference between digital printing and
traditional methods. You need to replace printing
plates in digital printing, whereas in analogue
printing the plates are repeatedly replaced. This
results in quicker turnaround time. The most
popular methods include inkjet or laser printers
that deposit pigment or toner onto a wide variety
of substrates including paper, photo paper,
canvas, glass, metal, marble, and other
substances.

4. Mechanical printing
• In the late 1850s the gum-bichromate photographic contact
print process was developed by substituting gum arabic for
gelatine. Although not a mechanical reproduction method
gum-bichromate printing is descended from the collotype
process and is worth a mention in this section.
• Gum-bichromate is a thick, viscous light sensitive material
that responds to light by hardening. Before exposure the
gum-bichromate is dyed with water colour paint. After
exposure the print is washed in water and the still soluble
parts of the emulsion are washed away. For multi-coloured
prints a separate emulsion is prepared for each colour, a
new layer is only applied after the previous layer has dried.