This document compares different printing methods including hand printing, mechanical printing, and digital printing. It provides details on specific techniques like linocut, etching, letterpress, gravure, photocopying, and laser printing. For each technique it lists the required skills, associated costs, required time, and ability to include pictures. Laser printing is highlighted as a good choice since it produces professional quality prints cheaply and quickly, handling the entire process automatically.

1. What is print?
Hand Mechanical Digital
Etching Letterpress Photocopying
Linocut Gravure Laser printing
Lithography Screen process Desktop publishing
Choose 2 from each sections
Extra marks if you do all 3!
Skills Cost Time Pictures
Wood cut £245 7 hours
radiation £55 5 minutes

2. Hand
Skills Cost Time Pictures
Linocut-Is a £80 - £100 each 7 hours
printmaking technique
variant of woodcut in
which a sheet of linoleum
(sometimes mounted on a
wooden block) is used for
the relief surface
Etching- is the £31.95 5 minutes
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.

3. Mechanical
Skills Cost Time Pictures
letterpress £1.80- £6.00 5 minutes.
each.
Gravure £15 per plate. 5 minutes.

4. Digital
Skills Cost Time Pictures
Photo copying 10p each. 10 seconds per
page.
Laser printing £47 per 100 100 pages per
pages. minute.

6. Conclusion
• I am going to use laser printing because I think it looks very
proffesional and is cheap.
• It does litteraly all the work for you and makes it so easy.