Print and Publishing

Two weeks have passed now, four Print and Publishing lessons. Umbelivebly, I've learned more about printing in four lessons here, than I did when I studied it for a GCSE (Graphic Design).

So far in the lessons we've learned about:

Relief printing,
Intaglio printing,
Planographic printing,
and Stencil printing.

we've now had practical practice in both Mono-printing



Sun Printing


And Intaglio


Mono-printing technique.

• Cover a glass sheet with ink from a roller, wiping off the excess.
• Tape sheets of paper above and below glass.
• Draw image onto paper, scratching the ink below.
• Use other tools e.g. finger nail, flat of pencil... to get other line effects.
• Remove tape from paper, peel paper away from inked glass.

• The result is both an impression of ink in the paper, and in the ink, leaving an negative impression.

Intaglio-printing technique.

• Scratch out an image on the plastic surface using a Scribe.
• Cover this image with ink applied by a Leather pad.
• Proceed to wipe surface ink off with a Scrim.
• Get any remains of surface ink off.
• Put plastic through a roller, along with damp paper.
• The damp paper pulls the ink out of the scratches and applies the ink to the paper.