Printmaking Review

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Across
  1. 4. In printing, a piece of thick, flat material, with a design on its surface used to print repeated impressions of that design. Called a PLATE in etching and engraving.
  2. 5. Print pulled from a block, plate, or stone to check the appearance of the image to make sure it is all right before making the edition.
  3. 6. Oldest intaglio process. Lines are cut into a metal or plexiglass surface. Ink is then forced into these lines and wiped away from the flat surface of the plate. A printing press is used to apply enough pressure that dampened paper will pick up the ink in the scratched lines that form the image.
  4. 9. (An Italian term) any form of printmaking where the ink is deposited below the surface on the printing plate which has been corroded, scratched, or incised, and the surface wiped clean; a damp paper is forced into the surface in a press.
  5. 11. Oldest printing process. A design is carved into the surface of a block of wood. The top surface is printed just like a rubber stamp.
  6. 12. A metal or wooden plate with a raised edge on each end to hold a woodcut or linocut in place on a table while cutting.
  7. 13. print made from a printing block created from a raised design on a flat surface. The top surface prints. An example of this king of printing is a rubber stamp.
  8. 14. Intaglio process where instead of cutting lines directly into the metal plate a wax covering is placed over the metal plate and the design in scratched into the wax to reveal metal. Acid is then used to eat the design into the metal and it is printed like an engraving.
  9. 15. A small hand held rubber roller used to spread printing ink evenly on the surface before printing.
  10. 16. The process of designing and producing prints using a printing block, woodcut, etching, lithographic or screen printing.
Down
  1. 1. One of a small group of prints set aside from the edition for the artist's use
  2. 2. A stencil method of printmaking in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface.
  3. 3. Relief print in which the block is made from linoleum.
  4. 4. A round, smooth pad, either flat or slightly convex, used to press paper against an inked wood or linoleum block to lift an impression from the block.
  5. 7. Coloring material composed of pigment(color), a binder, and a vehicle. Ink is usually thicker than most paints and has a slower drying rate.
  6. 8. In relief printing a tool for clearing non-image areas from a block of wood or linoleum.
  7. 9. The number of a print in an edition. The first three prints in an edition of 10 would be 1/10, 2/10, 3/10.
  8. 10. A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, usually a limestone slab, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink.