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== Relief == | == Relief == | ||
can't tell if a relief print is printed from wood or from metal (eletrotype) | |||
if sheet is printed on both sides, 90% certain it's relief | |||
don't get large areas of dead black in intaglio the way you do with relief | |||
=== Hand press period === | === Hand press period === | ||
==== Woodcuts ==== | ==== Woodcuts ==== | ||
fast to print | |||
don't wear out | |||
ink is such in, so you can stack sheets while wet | |||
done on plank side of wood | |||
=== C19 === | === C19 === | ||
==== Wood engravings ==== | ==== Wood engravings ==== | ||
done on endgrain, which is much harder; you an use a burin | |||
advantage over intaglio: can be printed with the text | |||
Bewick manner | Bewick manner | ||
Facsimile | Facsimile -- copy what an artist gives you | ||
Interpretive | Interpretive -- interpret what an artist gives you | ||
White-line | White-line -- | ||
==== Stereotype/electrotypes ==== | ==== Stereotype/electrotypes ==== | ||
begins around 1810 | |||
copper-faced woodblock made from original wood engraving; can't tell the different between a printing done from copper face or from original woodblock | |||
plaster in wood engraving means its a stereotype | |||
==== Wax engraving ==== | ==== Wax engraving ==== | ||
Revision as of 00:08, 24 July 2013
Illustration Processes to 1900 (I-20), Rare Book School, taught by Terry Belanger, 22-27 July 2013
Relief
can't tell if a relief print is printed from wood or from metal (eletrotype)
if sheet is printed on both sides, 90% certain it's relief
don't get large areas of dead black in intaglio the way you do with relief
Hand press period
Woodcuts
fast to print
don't wear out
ink is such in, so you can stack sheets while wet
done on plank side of wood
C19
Wood engravings
done on endgrain, which is much harder; you an use a burin
advantage over intaglio: can be printed with the text
Bewick manner
Facsimile -- copy what an artist gives you
Interpretive -- interpret what an artist gives you
White-line --
Stereotype/electrotypes
begins around 1810
copper-faced woodblock made from original wood engraving; can't tell the different between a printing done from copper face or from original woodblock
plaster in wood engraving means its a stereotype
Wax engraving
Photographically assisted processes
Photoxylograph
Process relief line engraving
Process false halftones
Process relief halftones
C20
C20 developments
Scraperboard
Intaglio
Hand-press period
Copper engravings
Etchings
Etchings on an ungrounded plate
Line engravings
Mezzotints
Stipple engravings
Aquatints
C19
Photographically assisted
letter press -- ~200 sq in of printing space, about 200lb of pressure, so ~1lb per sq in (not much at all)
copperplate: under pressure of rolling press, lines squash together