Print Technique Definition Advantage Disadvantage

Hand: Etching Is when someone cuts

into marble, stone to

create art.

To create a piece of art

that looks really good.

It takes a long time to engrave to create a good piece of art work.

Hand: Linocut Print making. it dose not tend to split

so its easier to add

effects to their work.

Its very time

consuming and hard to

work with.

Hand: Screen print Ink printing. Its not very time

consuming.

You could run out of

ink and its very messy.

Hand: Wioodcut Engraving into wood. It is used for maps,

illustrations and

printing patterns onto

textiles.

It takes up a lot of time

and doesn't always go

how you want it to.

Hand: Lithography Were a image is printed on a smooth surface.

It looks nice and very artistic.

The ink is messy and it could take a wile to dry.

Mechanical: letterpress It allows you to create

lots of the same image

or print using ink.

High speed printing and allows to make more of the same image.

The ink could mess up and destroy your work.

Mechanical: To create the same images again and again.

It is fast and efficient. The metal rolls are very expensive to make.

Mechanical: screen

process

Using ink to make an image.

It’s a fast way to make images.

The ink could go all over your work.

Digital: photocopying Making copy's of media documents.

Its cheep. Could blur the picture.

Digital: laser printing A printer that uses focused beams to print.

Good quality printing. If the beam breaks it could cost a lot of money to replace.

Etching

Linocut

Hand etching is a technique

where by the user etches (Cuts)

into something such as Marble of

Granite in order to create artistic

pictures.

This is a technique used for print

making. The technique is done by

cutting into the linoleum surface

with a sharp knife and engraving

the desired texture or picture on the

linoleum surface.

Screen print

Woodcut

Screen printing is a technique where an

ink-blocking stencil is printed onto a woven

mesh. The attached stencil forms open

areas of mesh where ink or other printable

materials can be pressed through the

mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a

substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved

across the screen stencil, forcing or

pumping ink past the threads of the woven

mesh in the open areas.

Originally wood was only available cut

along the grain or cut across it. The plank

wood cut along the grain has hard and soft

areas related to the growth of the tree.

Cutting tools, knives, motorised power

tools can be used to cut a design into a flat

block of material leaving the image as a

raised surface.

Lithography

letterpress

Lithography is a form of printing

where by an image is printed out onto

a smooth stone surface. This method

is normally used in order to print

either text or artwork onto suitable

surfaces such as paper.

Letterpress is a

printing technique

where by a type high

bed is used to press

a reversed inked

surface onto a series

of sheets of paper.

This technique allows

one to make many

copies of one image

or text and also

obtain a quality of

high standard copies.

Mechanical

The device applies pressure to a print that

rests on an inked surface made of movable

type, and then it makes a shape and that Is

your picture.

Digital photocopying

Digital laser printing

Photocopying is a form of making multiple

copies of media documents and other visual

images quickly and cheaply. They use a

technology called xerography which is a dry

process using heat. The process starts with the

cylindrical drum inside the copier being charged

by a high voltage which makes it negatively

charged. A bright lamp illuminates the original

document, and the white areas of the original

document reflect the light onto the surface of

the drum.

an image is sent directly to the printer

using digital files such as PDFs and

those from graphics software such as

Illustrator and InDesign. This

eliminates the need for a printing plate,

which is used in offset printing, which

can save money and time.