What Do I Use?
What Kinds are There?
What Do I Do?
Anatomy of a Print
What Else?
100

Hand roller used to apply ink or color.

What is a brayer?

100

one-of-a-kind, hand-pulled print. Types include trace, additive, and reduction

What is a monotype?

100

Adding ink to plate

What is charging the plate?

100

A way to add value to a print by repeatedly making parallel or perpendicular lines

What is hatching? or What is crosshatching?

100

Medium used to print

What is ink?

200
A machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.


What is a printing press?

200

paint/ink is forced through a silkscreen

What is a stencil?

200

The process of using vegetable oil to clean oil based inks off of a plate

What is degreasing?

200

A set of identical prints

What is an edition?

200

Faint traces of the image remaining on the printing plate after printing a monotype

What is a ghost image?

300

Tool used to push ink through a mesh screen

What is a squeegee?

300

print is carved into a plate to remove the areas that won't print, the raised area is inked and printed.

What is relief?

300

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?

300

The "ripped" edge of printmaking paper

What is a deckled edge?

300

Japanese tool for applying pressure to the print

What is a barren?

400

Tool used in printmaking to carve into a plate

What is a gouge?

400

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?

400

a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to the plate

What is a state?

400

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?

400

A printmaking technique in which a sheet of linoleum is used as the plate

What is a linocut?

500

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?

500

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?

500

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?

500

Method used to line up the colors of multiple color prints accurately

What is a registration?

500

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?