Hand roller used to apply ink or color.
What is a brayer?
one-of-a-kind, hand-pulled print. Types include trace, additive, and reduction
What is a monotype?
Adding ink to plate
What is charging the plate?
A way to add value to a print by repeatedly making parallel or perpendicular lines
What is hatching? or What is crosshatching?
Medium used to print
What is ink?
What is a printing press?
paint/ink is forced through a silkscreen
What is a stencil?
The process of using vegetable oil to clean oil based inks off of a plate
What is degreasing?
A set of identical prints
What is an edition?
Faint traces of the image remaining on the printing plate after printing a monotype
What is a ghost image?
Tool used to push ink through a mesh screen
What is a squeegee?
print is carved into a plate to remove the areas that won't print, the raised area is inked and printed.
What is relief?
Single color impressions from a set of plates being added at a time in the order in which they are to print. Combing the prints make a complete image
What is a progressive proof?
The "ripped" edge of printmaking paper
What is a deckled edge?
Japanese tool for applying pressure to the print
What is a barren?
Tool used in printmaking to carve into a plate
What is a gouge?
Image is created using a greasy substance, then the plate is treated with a chemical that causes the ink to be attracted to the greasy areas and repelled by nonprinting areas.
What is planography? or What is lithography?
a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to the plate
What is a state?
A small seal, stamp, or impression that identifies the artist and can be printed or embossed at the bottom of a print
What is a chop?
A printmaking technique in which a sheet of linoleum is used as the plate
What is a linocut?
A metal or wooden plate with a raised edge on each end to hold a woodcut or linocut in place while cutting
What is a bench hook?
lines are engraved or cut, ink is forced into the lines, the surface is whipped clean, and print is made with the pressure of an etching press
What is intaglio?
The ink from the block to the paper by rubbing the reverse side of the paper with a baren or any other suitable tool, such as the back of a spoon
What is burnishing?
Method used to line up the colors of multiple color prints accurately
What is a registration?
A print that is made using the same plate as the regular edition but is set aside rather than being numbered and included in the main edition
What is an artist proof?