Printmaking: Design

Review for the printmaking quiz!

What goes in the lower right corner of your print when finishing a print?

Signature

a set of identical prints that are numbered and signed by the artist

edition

what is used to eat into the exposed area of a plate for etching

acid

When a printed image has an even paper border around it (as seen here) it is called ______________ registration.

Regular

What goes in the lower left corner of your print when finishing a print?

Edition

What is it called when we line up our printing plate with our paper when printing?

registration

When relief printing or monoprinting, does the image print as you made it or in reverse?

in reverse

A print pulled in an edition of one

monoprint

A means of making prints by creating a raised design on a flat surface

relief

The surface onto or into which the image is drawn or placed

printing plate

What goes in the middle underneath your print when finishing a print?

Title

What are the two main types of relief printing?

Wood and linoleum

This type of registration continues all the way to the edge of the paper resulting in a borderless image

bleed

The individual print pulled from a printing plate

impression

a drawing scratched through a wax-covered or tar-covered metal plate which is then placed in acid that eats away at the areas of metal was exposed

etching

a print made by forcing ink through a stencil

silk screen

relief printing done on wood

woodcut

relief printing done on linoleum

linoleum cut

a roller used to apply the ink to the block

brayer

a disk like device with a flat bottom, and on the reverse side, a knotted handle

baren

what is finishing?

signature, title, edition. done in pencil, not pen.

what is a regular registration?

having even border around the image

what is bleed registration

the whole paper is covered in the image