Printmaking Terms

4. A relief technique using a plank of wood from which shapes are gouged away using chisels or knives, leaving the printing image as the raised surfacebaren Hand tool used to firmly rub the back of the sheet of paper in order to pick up ink from the matrix
6. A set of identical prints made from the same matrix
11. a light-sensitive gel applied to the screen during the photo silkscreen process
12. the piece of paper or surface that has received a design from a printing matrix
13. A term sometimes used to refer to the corrosive solution in which a metal plate is etched for intaglio printing
14. A term for the family of printing techniques which transfers ink from the recesses of a matrix, rather than from its surface

1. uses stencils set into fabric, often with a photo-sensitive chemical known as emulsion
2. material upon which a design has been formed that is used to create a print; includes many surfaces ie metal, wood, stone, fabric, etc
3. does not produce an edition; most painterly of printmaking processes
5. A relief technique using a sheet of linoleum from which shapes are gouged away using chisels or knives, leaving the printing image as the raised surface
7. a tool used in serigraphy to push ink though the screen
8. invented in the 19th-century by German playwright Aloys Senefelder; uses stone as its matrix
9. created by using metal plates into which lines have been incised; run through a press
10. A roller used to spread ink on a matrix