Understanding printing techniques

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Understanding Printing techniques.

• Gather equipment: Lino, roller, paper and tracing paper, lino cutting tool, laminate paper, wooden spoon.

• Make a drawing

• Transfer it onto tracing paper

• Be very careful

• Transfer your design onto the lino

Hand printing & examples Lino cutting part 1

cut sketch with the lino cutting tool we can either use a V or U cutter.

cut quite deep so when we paint it and transfer in onto the paper it will come out properly otherwise there will be gaps in the design.

make sure your hand is behind the tool rather than in front of it, so there is no chance of our hand getting cut.

Hand printing & examples Lino cutting part 2

After this process we can choose any ink paint colored spread it out with the roller make sure that you spread it out evenly so when we transfer it onto the

after this we flipped the lino around onto the paper and tapped around evenly with a wooden spoon

try not to move the lino or the paper otherwise it will ruin the slowly remove the paper from the lino and there is the design you made.

Hand printing & examples Lino cutting part 3

- Hand made cards

- Flyers

- Custom made posters

What can lino printing be used for?

Lino printing- advantages and disadvantages

Advantages Disadvantages

It is easy to make a few You cant make too many e.g. 1000

It is cheaper to use It is time consuming

You can make your own unique design

Cant be made it factory's

Offset lithography is a method which is used for printing on flat surfaces, for this procedure they use printing plates

After the image is transferred onto the printing plate. There are a variety of different materials for example; paper or metal.

The plate has to be chemically treated so that the ink will only go where it needs to

The plate is then rolled onto a rubber cylinder whilst applying the ink area and in turn the rubber cylinder which transfers the image to the paper.

Offset lithography

- Newspapers

- Magazines

What can offset lithography be used for?

An advantage of Offset lithography is it prints high quality images.

A disadvantage of Offset lithography is you can’t print small things it will come in be quality.

A second advantage of Offset lithography is that it is the cheapest way to make high quality printing.

A second disadvantage of Offset lithography is materials are complicated to use.

 A third advantage of Offset lithography is it sharps and cleans the images.

A third disadvantage of Offset lithography is it takes up a lot of time setting up at first such as the factory etc.

Advantages and disadvantages of offset lithography

- Documents

- - power points

- - spread sheets

- Time tables

- Things that you would normally print off!

What can laser printing be used for?

• Laser printing is an electronic digital printing method which

• It creates high quality texts and graphics

• A laser beam passes over a charged drum transfer the image to the paper

• The paper needs to be heated to permanently fix the image.

Laser printing

An advantage of Laser printing is that it is a high quality printer

A disadvantage of Laser printing is they can be quite dangerous sue to high voltage

A second advantage of Laser printing is it is noiseless and prints fast 

A second disadvantage of Laser printing is whilst laser printers have more too in they are quite costly

Advantages and disadvantages