- the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication; "I want to see it in print"
- a picture or design printed from an engraving
- mark: a visible indication made on a surface; "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw prints were everywhere"
- put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
- availability in printed form; "we've got to get that story into print"; "his book is no longer in print"
- write as if with print; not cursive
- a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
- make into a print; "print the negative"
- a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
- reproduce by printing
- photographic print: a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
These definitions are from Google. These definitions are really basic though, and they dont give much indication into the process of print, its history, how it is used or what processes there are.
Print \Print\, verb (used without an object)
1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters,figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Print \Print\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Printed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Printing}.] [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See {Imprint}, and {Press} to squeeze.]
1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Print \Print\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Printed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Printing}.] [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See {Imprint}, and {Press} to squeeze.]
1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butterprint.
3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, smallprint; large print; this line is in print.
5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, asfrom an engraved plate. ''The prints which we see of antiquities.'' --Dryden. (b) A printedpublication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. --Addison. (c) A printed cloth; afabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. (d) A photographic copy, or positivepicture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, smallprint; large print; this line is in print.
5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, asfrom an engraved plate. ''The prints which we see of antiquities.'' --Dryden. (b) A printedpublication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. --Addison. (c) A printed cloth; afabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. (d) A photographic copy, or positivepicture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
You cant really argue with any of these definitions, and the latter are more detailed than the first, but it does prove that in order for this to start to relate to my practise, it needs to become much more focused on specific processes which are relevant as well as budgets, who, why, where etc. The trip I made to Duffield last Tuesday was definately a move in the right direction, because I did actually learn alot about how the Litho print process works, and I saw first hand, the speccing, printing, proofing and production of a printed product. Another trip is in the pipeline, to Team impression, which will be happening in the next few weeks. To me, this is print.
Screen printing for exhibition space by Poor Designers collective.
Some large scale manual printing. This shows the printers considering two colour separations, lifting the huge frame after a pull, and some printed logos on the drying rack. I dont think there is anything more rewarding than the manual printing of your own work. It's the type of thing that often gets strong results with the right planning. Areas that I will need to look into here are:
- Colour separations & speccing considerations
- Format, scale & resolution
- The screen preparation process
- the Screen print process
A beautiful limited colour screen print by Adam Smith. Adam used dot gradients and bitmapping in a subtle way to create a pink to white colour fade, as well as using 2 tints of pink and a black ink to create a simple but effective print.
Litho printed covers of Bonafide magazine. Simple but effective colour again, but lithograph printing makes for quick and easy repetition of a document into print. I do need to look into this process in more depth than I have at the moment, but going to duffield provided some great photograph oppertunities of the process actually happening in front of me.
Sunken emboss (deboss) and raised emboss stationary by Xavier Encinas. I understand how this is done using copper plates, ferric acid and exposing materials but I need to research the whole process in more depth. Embossing is a great way of avoiding actually using ink, especially on business cards... I'm sure these cards made a great impression...
Some more identity design from Encinas, using coated stocks and foiling. Jut like embossing, I want to understand in depth the variety of ways in which this process works, aside from heat transfer.
Fabric printing is an interesting process to me, and could become really relevant to my practise as an ilustrator/ image based designer. It could be used (as above) with plush toy printing, t- shirts and more textiles based products.
Die cutting, very special print! Im going to do a separate post about this bacuase this post is getting pretty huge.
