Printing Production

1. PRINT PRODUCTION PROCESS

2. Hand Printing
Etching
• Etching is a form of printing. It is defined as a 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.
• When is making an Etching the most common surfaces are
zing and copper plates. Zinc is less expensive, and copper is
harder and gives a very beautiful line.
• The process of making an etching consist in draw with needle
onto a copper or zinc plate that has been covered with an acid
resistant wax. After, the plate is immersed in acid, which eats
the surface exposed by the lines of the drawing. The depth of
the etching is controlled by the amount of time the acid bite
the metal. Those lines hold the ink, and when the plate is
applied to moist paper, the design transfers to the paper
providing a finished print.

4. Advantages and disadvantages of Etching
printing.
Advantages:
 Etching is quicker.
 You don’t need use the
print for print.
 Everybody can make it.
 The artist needn’t many
tools.
Disadvantages:
 You must follow all the
steps to get a good
finished.

6. Intaglio
 Intaglio is a printing technique in which the image is
incised into a surface and this incised line holds the ink.
 Copper or zinc are the plates used as surface and the
incisions are created by intaglio, drypoint, aquatint,
mezzopoint.

7.  Linocut
 Linocut is a
printmaking
technique, a variant
of woodcut in which
a sheet of linoleum
mounted on a is
used for the relief
surface.

8.  Screen Printing
 Screen printing is a
printing technique
that uses a woven
mesh to support an
ink-blocking stencil
to receive a desired
image.

9.  Woodcut
 Woodcut is a technique for printing text,
images or patterns used widely throughout
East Asia and originating in China in antiquity
as a method of printing on textiles and later
paper.

10.  Lithography
 Lithography is a method of printing originally
based on the principle that oil and water do
not mix. Printing is from a stone (lithographic
limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth
surface.
 It was invented in 1796 by German author and
actor Alois Senefelder as a cheap method of
publishing theatrical works.[2][3] Lithography
can be used to print text or artwork onto paper
or other suitable material.

11. Mechanical
Letterpress
 It is a technique of relief printing using a printing press. A
worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of
a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer
the ink from the type which creates an impression on the
paper.

12.  Gravure
is type of intaglio process, which consist engraving an image
onto an image carrier.

13. Digital
 Photocopying consist in copies document and other
visual images quickly and cheaply.
 Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process
that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics by
passing a laser beam over a charged drum to define a
differentially charged image.
 Inkjet is a type of computer printing that creates a digital
image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper, plastic, or
other substrates.
 Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using
page layout skills on a personal computer.
 Digital Screen Printing refers to methods of printing from
a digital-based image directly to a variety of media.