What is a color lithograph?

In offset-lithography, the paper does not come into direct contact with the printing plate. Instead, the image is transferred to a rubber roller. Lithography is used for medium and long print runs of products such as magazines, posters, packaging and books.

Chromolithography is a unique method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used.

Oleograph, also called chromolithograph or chromo, colour lithograph produced by preparing a separate stone by hand for each colour to be used and printing one colour in register over another. The term is most often used in reference to commercial prints. Sometimes as many as 30 stones were used for a single print.

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing using a printing press, a process by which many copies are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper. In theory, anything that is “type high” or .918 inches can be printed using letterpress.

Lithography in the MEMS context is typically the transfer of a pattern to a photosensitive material by selective exposure to a radiation source such as light. A photosensitive material is a material that experiences a change in its physical properties when exposed to a radiation source.

It means quite literally writing on stones. In the case of semiconductor lithography (also called photolithography) our stones are silicon wafers and our patterns are written with a light sensitive polymer called a photoresist.

Serigraphy, also known as silk screening, screen printing or serigraph printing, is a stencil-based printing process in which ink is forced through a fine screen onto the paper beneath. Screens were originally made of silk, but they are now made of finely woven polyester or nylon.

Noun. 1. lithograph machine – duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern. lithograph. copier, duplicator – apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material.

Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid.

At it’s simplest, we define an original print as an artwork that has been manually printed by the artist (or with some processes, printed under the artist’s direct supervision). It is not a reproduction. The artist will have created an image on block, stone, plate or screen from which the final print is produced.

When the print quality of a lithograph is outstanding—and particularly if few pieces were created in a series—the piece will be higher in value. Posters that are printed through other means, such as digital printing or offset printing on a huge press, are usually mass produced.

The difference between an original hand pulled print and a reproduction? THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HAND PULLED PRINTOR AN ORIGINAL ART WORK VS. After each edition is printed, each print is numbered and signed in pencil beneath the image. A giclee or a reproduction is a COPY of an original artwork.

An original print is a work of art created by hand and printed by hand, either by the artist or by a professional assistant (often called an artisan), from a plate, block, stone, or stencil that has been hand created by the artist for the sole purpose of producing the desired image.

The difference is important, not just to wordsmiths but to artists and earnest purchasers. A print is an original work of art (including photographs) A reproduction is a printed representation, a facsimile, or a copy. of an original work of art.

A form of letterpress, Wood Block printing is one of the oldest techniques for printing and has a long history or development in both Europe and Asia. It is a relief process in which an image is carved in reverse into a piece of wood, inked up and paper is pressed down on top of it to transfer the ink and image.

There are four main categories of printmaking: relief, intaglio, lithography, and screenprinting. Each color in a print usually requires a separate stone, plate, block, or stencil, and any of these basic processes may be combined in the creation of a finished work.

The types of printing:

Digital Printing.

Flexography.

Letterpress Printing.

Offset Printing.

Rotogravure.

Screen Printing.

Used along with, or in place of tusche (lithographic ink), these dense, black crayons are especially designed for sketching directly on a lithographic stone, screen, or grained paper master for lithographic printing. Ideal for drawing on paper as well.

Lithographic crayons are square shaped sticks that resemble pencil leads. They are made of white wax, soap, lac, mastic, sheep tallow, lamp black, and, for the hardest grade crayons, copal.