Etching originated in medieval times as a way to decorate armor and metal by incising lines that were then filled with ink and transferred to paper or cloth. Letterpress printing uses a printing press to press inked words onto paper through relief printing. Fine art inkjet printing outputs computer image files directly to an inkjet printer, which prints with two ink colors like black, blue, yellow, or pink similar to a normal printer.

1. TASK 2-PRINTING
TECHNIQUES
BY KIERAN LEWIS

2. ETCHING
THE TECHNIQUES OF ETCHING AND ENGRAVING
ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN MEDIEVAL
TIMES AS A MEANS OF DECORATING ARMOUR AND
METAL. THE INCISED LINES WOULD HAVE OFTEN
BEEN FILLED TO DARKEN THEM AND FROM THIS IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN A SHORT STEP TO
TRANSFERRING THE IMAGE TO CLOTH OR PAPER.
Hand

3. LETTERPRESS
PRINTING
A LETTERPRESS PRINTING IS A TECHNIQUE OF
RELIEF PRINTING USING A PRINTING PRESS. THIS IS
A PROCESS BY WORDS BEING PRESSED ONTO PAPER
WITH INK AND ITS REPEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN AS
THE PAPER ROLLS THOUGH.
Technolo
gy

4. FINE ART
INKJET
PRINTING
AN FINE ART INKJET PRINTING IS PRINTING FROM A
COMPUTER IMAGE FILE DIRECTLY TO AN INKJET
PRINTER AS A FINAL OUTPUT. THIS ACTS LIKE A
NORMAL PRINTER WITH HAS TWO INK COLOURS
SUCH AS BLACK, BLUE, YELLOW AND PINK.
Printing