Once the edition has been printed, the stone or plate is destroyed or erased, ensuring that no more impressions can be printed. Then the artist signs and numbers the impression. To pull a print simply means to print an impression, and impression refers to any one of a number of nearly identical images pulled from the same printing elements. Generally the same piece of paper must pass through the press as many times as there are different colors. This process requires exact registration with each run, or pass, through the press.
Registration ensures that each color or component of an image is printed in exactly the nght area.
The printer makes tiny pencil marks on each sheet of paper to be printed and lines them up to correspond with marks on each stone or plate. This way, each impression in the edition is consistent. Edition refers to all impressions of a particular image that are printed after the artist has given an approval to print. At Tamarind, the edition includes all numbered prints, the artist's proofs, the bon a firer, which is given to the printer, and three impressions for the Tamarind archives. All impressions, including the trial proofs, color trial proofs, and artist's impressions, are documented.