Printmaking Vocabulary

Baren: A round, smooth pad used Etching: A means of incising lines in to press paper against an inked a metal plate with acid for printing wood or linoleum block. in the intaglio technique.

Bench Hook: A metal or wooden Gouge: In relief printing, a tool for plate with a raised edge on each cutting and clearing areas from a end to hold a woodcut or linocut in block of wood or linoleum. place while cutting. Intaglio: Any of the techniques in Block: A piece of thick, flat material, which an image or tonal area is with a design on its surface, used to printed from lines or textures print repeated impressions of that scratched or etched into a metal design. plate (engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint, lift ground, soft ground). Brayer: A small roller used to spread printing ink evenly on a Linoleum Print: A type of relief surface before printing. print in which the image is cut into a piece of linoleum. Burin: A tool used by an engraver with a steel shaft and a sharp point Lithograph: A printing technique in at one end and a handle at the which the image is drawn on a very other. flat slab of limestone (or a specially treated metal plate). Chine Colle: A technique for gluing smaller pieces of paper onto a print Monoprint: A print pulled in an while printing it. Usually thin edition of one. There are no series papers are attached to a heavier of identical printing paper with this method. prints that are signed and numbered. Collagraph: A print made from an image built up with glue and other Printing Press: A device used by a collage-type materials. fine art printmaker to produce prints one copy at a time. It applies Edition: A set of identical prints pressure between a sheet of paper that are numbered and signed. and an inked printing plate.

Engraving: A form of intaglio Proofs: Prints made at various printing in which lines are incised stages during the creative process into a metal plate with a carving to act as guidelines for further tool called a burin. stages to change, correct or improve the image.

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Printmaking Vocabulary

Registration: Adjustment of separate plates, blocks, screens or paper in color printing to ensure correct alignment of the colors.

Relief: A technique in which the image is printed from a raised surface.

Relief Print: A means of making prints by creating a raised design on a flat surface. The design is inked or covered with color and stamped on paper or another surface.

Screen Print: A form of stencil printing in which the stencil is adhered to a fine screen for support.

Stencil: A printing process by which areas are blocked out to keep ink from non-image areas.

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