Other Forms
Apart from intaglio, the other traditional families, or groups of printmaking techniques are:
- Relief prints, including woodcut, where the matrix is cut away to leave the image-making part on the original surface. The matrix is then just inked and printed, not wiped as described above.
- Planographic, including lithography, also known as "offset printing", where the image rests on the surface of the matrix, which can therefore often be reused.
- Both intaglio and relief, as well as planographic printing processes, print a reversed image (a mirror image of the matrix), which must be allowed for in the composition, especially if it includes text.
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