Hallmark engraving
The punch engraving, also punch printing, is a graphic gravure printing process . A (pressure) plate is hallmarked by being hit with a steel pin or stamps the shapes in the plate. The outlines are mostly engraved .
Punzenstich is an old, but now rare, technique that developed from a decorative technique used in gold, silver and weapon smiths . The technique is similar to shot cutting and is related to driving , in which recesses are usually hammered into reliefs .
The graphic artist Hermann Naumann has been using the punch engraving since 1950. He described the technique in a letter to Dietrich Falke on October 29, 2003 : The copper displaced by the punch forms a small crater - many of these "craters" result in a roughness - so count Hallmarks with the mezzotint sheets for the "rough prints". So the tool is very simple (,) but the point as a basic graphic element offers a wide variety of possible effects.