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Introduction
Major techniques of printmaking
- Relief processes
  - Woodcut
  - Colour woodcut
  - Wood engraving
  - Linoleum cut
  - Metal cut
  - Cardboard (paper) cut
  - Relief etching
  - Rubbing
  - Dotted print (criblé)
- Intaglio processes
  - Engraving
  - Drypoint
  - Mezzotint
  - Crayon manner and stipple engraving
  - Etching
    - Hard-ground etching
    - Soft-ground etching
    - Relief etching
    - Aquatint
    - Lift-ground etching (sugar-lift aquatint)
    - Acids and the etching process
  - Metal graphic
  - Printing by intaglio processes
    - Intaglio colour printing
    - Stencilled colours with an intaglio plate
    - Intaglio and surface colour with relief etching
- Surface-printing processes
  - Lithography
  - Stencil processes
- Special techniques
  - Monoprint (monotype)
  - Cliché-verre
  - The cellocut
  - Collagraphy
  - Plaster print
- Process prints
  - Linecut
  - Halftone cut or plate
  - Rotogravure
  - Offset lithography
- Contemporary experimentation
- Mounting and care of prints
History of printmaking
- Printmaking in the 15th century
  - Germany
  - Italy
  - Other countries
    - The Netherlands and Burgundy
    - France
- Printmaking in the 16th century
  - Germany
  - Other countries
    - The Netherlands and Flanders
    - Italy
    - France
  - Trends in the late 16th century
- Printmaking in the 17th century
  - Portrait engraving
    - France
    - Germany
    - The Netherlands
    - England
  - Flemish printmaking
  - European etching
    - Italy
    - The Netherlands
  - Japanese ukiyo-e prints
- Printmaking in the 18th century
  - Italy
  - England
  - Spain
  - France
  - Japan
- Printmaking in the 19th century
  - France
  - Japan
  - Other countries
- Printmaking in the 20th century
  - France
  - Germany
  - Other countries

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Lithography is based on the fact that water and grease do not mix. The image is drawn or painted on the stone or metal plate with greasy litho crayon or a greasy black ink (tusche). Once the drawing is finished, it is fixed with an etch to prevent the spreading of the grease. A heavy, syrupy mixture of gum arabic and a small quantity of nitric acid, the etch is used to protect the drawing from water and to further desensitize the undrawn areas to printing ink. The nitric acid opens the pores of the stone, enabling the gum and ...(100 of 20091 words)

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