Used to examine prints, plates, burins. Relief print made with a linoleum matrix. A planographic process in which the ink is transferred from a flat surface that has been chemically prepared to accept water in some areas and ink in others. Not a reproduction of an earlier work of art created in a different medium. Wood used for carving and printing a woodcut.
Lithography is an example.
In intaglio printing, a film of ink remaining on surface. In intaglio printing, outside edge of plate is an embossed imprint. Color applied through stencils. A print or impression. One of four categories of printing.