Any of several techniques for making multiple copies of a single image. Some examples are the wood
cuts, etching, collagraphs and silk screen prints. (Multiple copies made from a plate or book) - Answers
Printmaking
A shape or Mark made from a printing block or other object that is covered with ink and then pressed on
a flat surface such as paper or cloth. - Answers Print
The total number of impressions made at one time from the same block or plate 20/100 - Answers
Edition
Only a few prints were made from the plate or block. - Answers Limited edition
When the image is finished to the satisfaction of the artists. A series is then run off called the artist
proof. The first print to satisfy the artist's criteria. - Answers Artist proof
The defacing of block or plate after a certain number of prints have been made. The block is
intentionally defaced by the artist, to verify the end of the edition. - Answers Cancellation proof
Sample prints that guide the printing of a finished edition. - Answers Printers proof
A print making technique in which a block is carved and a print made from its raised surface block or
wood. The oldest method of reproducing images. - Answers Relief printing
A print made from an image cut into a block of wood, the ink is transferred from the raised surface to
the paper. - Answers Wood cut
Relief printmaking technique in which a Linoleum block is carved to leave a raised image that maybe
easily inked liked a rubber stamp. - Answers Linocut
A process of printmaking in which stances are applied to a silk that is firmly stretcher across frame paint
Forced the unblock portion of the screen onto the paper beneath. - Answers Serigraphy/silkscreen
printing
An image or design cut out of a stiff material. Paint is forced through the holes in the stencil to
reproduce the cut image, used for hand printing on cloth, paper, walls, limestone slabs or metal plates
are used as drawing surfaces. - Answers Stencil printing
A printmaking method in which only one impression is made. - Answers Monotype printing
A printing process that depends on oil or grease to water the transfer of ink to paper. - Answers
Lithography
A method of printing from a flat surface on which a variety of materials has been attached. - Answers
Collography