This document discusses different printmaking techniques. It defines printmaking as producing images by applying ink to paper or other material using plates or blocks. The four major printmaking processes are relief, intaglio, planographic, and stencil. Relief printing is described as applying ink to the original surface of the matrix, with examples including woodcut, wood engraving, and linocut. Intaglio is applying ink beneath the matrix surface, using techniques like engraving and etching. Planographic involves a specially prepared surface to transfer the image, such as in lithography. Stencil uses a prepared screen to press ink or paint through.

1. What is Printmaking? Flip it and
we are….. Making Print.

2. Making Print
• Print
• verb (used with object) 1. to produce (a text, picture,
etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the
like, to paper or other material by direct pressure.
• 2. to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a
plate or block.
• 3. to form a design or pattern upon, as by stamping
with an engraved plate or block: to print calico.
• 4. to be published in print.
• 5. to write in letters like those commonly used in print:
Print your name on these forms.

3. 4 Major Processes to Create Prints
• Relief
• Intaglio
• Planographic.
• Stencil

4. Ahhhh! Well, that’s a Relief….print.
• Relief: where ink is applied to the original surface of the matrix.
• A= Matrix
• B= Paper
• -= Ink
• Relief techniques include:
woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known
, wood engraving
, linocut and metalcut;
The majority of the prints you create will be made in the Relief Printing Process.

5. Examples of Relief Printing

6. Intaglio
• Intaglio: where ink is applied beneath the
original surface of the matrix.
• Intaglio techniques include: engraving,
etching, mezzotint, aquatint
• We will most likely NOT be using this
technique in this class.

7. Intaglio Examples

8. Planographic
• Planographic: where the matrix retains its
original surface, but is specially prepared
and/or inked to allow for the transfer of the
image.
• Planographic techniques include: lithography,
monotyping, and digital techniques.

10. Stencil
• Stencil: where ink or paint is pressed
through a prepared screen,
• including: screenprinting and pochoir.