Imprint (printing technique)

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Manfred Behrens: Woody Allen. Example of an impression by woodcut, finished print left pressure plate right

An imprint in printing technology refers to the reproduction of a print template using one of several copying processes.

Examples of copying processes

With the monotype , a picture or a drawing is applied to a glass , igelite , acrylic or metal plate and, as long as the paint is still damp, printed on a sheet of paper using a press or hand rubbing. The type of technology enables an imprint to be made quickly, but only a single imprint can be obtained in this way.

In lithography, the picture is drawn on a limestone with a fatty substance and the stone is then chemically prepared. The subsequently applied printing ink only adheres to the grease base of the drawing and thus creates a mirror image of the drawing.

In the relief-like printing block of the woodcut , the raised parts are colored. The impression is made by hand rubbing or by a printing press.

The lead type composes individual letters (individual letters) to form a text in a printing block. As with the woodcut, the imprint is made by coloring the raised letters, after the imprint the printing block can be dismantled again into its individual parts and the letters can be used again.

See also

literature

  • Heijo Klein: DuMont's small technical dictionary of printing technology and graphic arts. From impression to cylinder press . 3rd edition DuMont, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0760-8 .

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