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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Techniques & Technology unit 18 (P1 Part) 

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Techniques & Technology unit 18 (P1 Part) 

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Materials - Strong acid or other chemicals in some cases are used to create designs in metal or other materials (eg.Glass). A acid resistant wax is used and scratched off with an etching needle. An echoppe is used to thicken lines. Ink is also used.

Cost - Glass etching varies from approximately £25- £60. Metal etching is a lower cost.

Advantages -

- Many things can be etched at once.

- It's a quick process.

- Low cost.

Disadvantages -

- Dangerous chemicals are used in the process and could be harmful to the person doing it.

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Materials: Intaglio uses the same process as etching. Like etching, intaglio uses acid, wax, an etching needle, an echoppe and ink. Usually, copper, zinc or glass is used as a surface.

Cost: Like etching, intaglio printing ranges from about £25-£60.

Advantages:

- Many things can be etched at once.

- It's a quick process.

- Low cost.

Disadvantages:

- Dangerous chemicals are used in the process and could be harmful to the person doing it.

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Materials - A screen is made from a piece of mesh stretched over a frame. A stencil is used in the shape of the image you wish to print, putting ink in the exposed parts. Pallet tape protects the ink, making sure it doesn’t spill over. Paper is essential in order to print on.

Cost - Screen printing on t-shirts would cost approximately £4 or £5 per shirt. Depending on what you’re screen printing affects the price. Screen printing on paper is very cheap.

Advantages -

- Cost effective.

- No risks.

- Multi- coloured design can be printed depending on the ink that you use.

Disadvantages -

- Dangerous chemicals are used in the process.

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Materials - Wood is sanded down or cut with a knife leaving the image to show in black at surface level. The wood block is then inked.

Cost - Approximately £2 for every 10mm printing.

Advantages - It's c heap and you can use several colours.

Disadvantages - Once the artist moves onto the next layer, no more changes can be made.

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Materials - A surface, usually limestone is used. The image is drawn on the limestone with some sort of greasy substance.

Cost - £20,000 for the materials.

Advantages - Fast and images are produced are clear and sharp.

Disadvantages - It c annot do small print runs and materials are complex to use.

Skills and Knowledge Required:

-Time management.

-Listnening skills.

-Problem solving skills.

-Communication skills.

-Critical thinking.

Speed aesthetic considerations: Quick and simple process that most can do.

What uses they have today, and through history: Invented by German actor Alois Senefelder in 1798. In 1817 it became possible to print from a zinc plate and from there colour lithography and four-colour printing developed. By the end of the century offset printing had been invented.

Step by step:

1. Oxidized wafer is coated with negative photo resist layer.

2. Exposure with a mask on glass plate, using UV light.

3. Wafer is rinsed in developing solution to remove unexposed area.

4. Wafer is placed in a solution to attack oxide.

5. After etching is completed, remaining photo resist is stripped off with a Strong acid.

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Materials - Letterpress is usually done with a printer. All you need is paper, ink and a pressing printer.

Cost - A letterpress printer can cost from £50- £10000, depending on how good the printer is.

Advantages - It looks good and is a straight forward process.

Disadvantages - It's slow and each colour has to dry before next colour can be added. Photographs and drawings must be converted to photo engravings which is slow and costly.

Skills and Knowledge Required:

-Knowledge of computers and Electronics.

-Creative.

-Tolerance to stress.

-Computer/electronic skills.

Speed aesthetic considerations: Quick and simple.

Technical Considerations: Many letterpress printers struggle with getting good results with metallic inks.

What uses they have today, and through history: Letterpress originated in the 1400s and was the primary form of printing and communication for over 500 years. For centuries it was the method of publishing books, but over time it has evolved into an art form more than a printing practice. Now, letterpress printing allows modern printers to create commercial works that have an appealing tactile quality in comparison to current offset and digital printing methods.

Step by step:

1. Sketch your idea.

2. Find the typeface that you want to use.

3. In letterpress printing, lines of type are set on metal composing sticks. A lead slug, measuring 6 points think, is the first thing placed into the composing stick.

4. Once the type has been set with the composing stick, it can then be transferred to a galley to be tied up. The type is literally tied up with a piece of string. Wrap the string 5 times.

5. T he type is untied and locked into a metal frame with wooden blocks. The metal frame, or chase, is the piece that is placed into the printing press. Wooden blocks or furniture are placed in the spaces between the frame and the type to ensure the metal type is locked in tight. Metal-toothed wedges, or quoins, are also added to the mix to apply pressure and tension to lock all the elements securely.

6. With the ink picked out, the metal chase is placed into the press. The press is operated by a foot pedal, fly wheel and lever.

7. Ink rollers coat the type with ink as the press runs. Paper is manually fed into the press and a clamping allows the ink to print onto the paper.

8. Cut and trim the card to how you like.

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Damask Letterpress Monogram Card Gift Set

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Materials - The materials used are paper, a carton board, film, aluminium foil and Laminates.

Cost - A gravure machine is costly at approximately £10,000- £100,000.

Advantages - Advantages of Gravure are that you can print good quality with bright colours.

Disadvantages - It's costly and a lot of time is needed to engrave gravure cylinders.

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Materials - The materials needed are ink in whichever colour you choose, silk screen material, photo-sensitive emulsion to make the image come out, screen wash to wash the screen and glass.

Cost - The cost cannot be determined but is generally quite cheap.

Advantages -

-Good quality.

-Cheap.

-Can use it in many cases such as underground signs as shown in the photograph below.

Disadvantages -

- It can be time consuming.

- May be a complicated procedure for beginners.

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Materials - Paper is needed to photocopy as well as a photocopying machine. You also need to supply ink to the printer.

Cost - The machine can be quite costly however, after buying the machine, the process is cheap.

Advantages - Can copy large amounts of paper. It's a cheap and simple process.

Disadvantages - It's e xpensive to replace or repair and you have to keep replacing the ink and paper. The machine can be heavy to move

Skills Required:

-Basic electronic skills. Carlson patented the invention in 1938 and called it "electrophotography".

History: Chester Carlson is the inventor of the photocopier. In 1950, Haloid began to sell its first copier, the Haloid Xerox Copier. By the 1960s, the company sold the machines as Xerox to reflect the company's name change. These days, copiers are common in educational institutions, department stores and offices. However, due to advances in technology since Chester Carlson's breakthrough, many devices manufactured by companies such as HP, Brother and Epson include copying capabilities, as well printing, scanning and faxing.

Step by step:

1. Make sure you place the ink and the paper in the correct place.

2. Put the document you want to copy face down on the screen of the copier.

3. Lower the screen cover.

4. Choose your settings.

5. Wait for the copies to come out.

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Materials - A printer is needed as well as ink and paper.

Cost - The cost is not usually expensive. Printers can range from £20-£10000. Ink can also be costly as you have to keep replacing it every so often.

Advantages - It c an print large amounts of paper in a fast amount of time. Its a cheap and relatively simple process.

Disadvantages - It can be very e xpensive to replace or repair and you have to keep replacing the ink and paper.

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Materials - Uses the same materials as a laser printer except inkjet sprays ink onto the paper.

Cost - Not usually expensive. Printers can range from £20-£10000. Ink can be costly as well.

Advantages - It c an print large amounts of paper in a quick, cheap and simple process.

Disadvantages - Expensive to replace or repair. You have to keep replacing the ink and paper.

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Digital Printing - Desktop Publishing (DTP)

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Digital Printing - Desktop Publishing (DTP)

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Materials - A desktop publishing program, ink and a printer is needed.

Cost - The DTP program could be costly as well as the printer.

Advantages - It m akes for a clean and organized page.

Disadvantages - You h ave to replace ink and paper in the printer.

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Digital Printing - Digital Screen Printing 

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Digital Printing - Digital Screen Printing 

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Materials - A t-shirt or other clothing, ink a printer and transfer paper are needed for the process.

Cost - Ranges from about £40- $5,000. Transfer paper can also be costly.

Advantages - It a llows you to print on clothing.

Disadvantages - The printer and the transfer paper could be costly.

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Assignment 1: Investigation Print-Based Media Production - Task 2: Print Products and Printers. (P1 Part)

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Assignment 1: Investigation Print-Based Media Production - Task 2: Print Products and Printers. (P1 Part)

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Magazines are printed with the CMYK process. This uses cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink to make up the colours. The original is either copied via filters or modified via digital software. The printed colours are semi-transparent allowing them to combine to create more colours.

Before you start, you must create a plate. A plate is a sheet that puts the ink onto the page. You then put the plate onto the press and the press does all the work. The paper rolls through 4 presses, one for each colour. Paper rolls through the press at 100's per second. Once finished, the paper comes together to create the whole magazine and is cut before being placed into a machine that staples the pages together at a fast speed.

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Have you ever wondered how magazines are printed? Check out this HowStuffWorks video and find out! Credits: , HowStuffWorks

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The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 CE. However, it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.

Before Gutenberg, printing was limited in the number of editions made and nearly exclusively decorative, used for pictures and designs. The material to be printed was carved into wood, stone, and metal, rolled with ink or paint and transferred by pressure to parchment or vellum. Books were hand copied.

Books are now made by using machines.The Twilight series is printed in RR Donnelly in Indiana which is the size of 17 football fields.
In the video, it shows the largest book printer printing 125000 copies of the Twilight book. The printing layout must be planned and laid out before anything else is done. A plate must be created and put into the laser printer. It then goes into an oven. The printer spreads ink accross the whole plate after water has been put on. The water keeps the ink from getting on the part of the page that is supposed to be blank. The paper is sliced and alligned and is folded into 32 page chunks known as signatures and folded to make the book. A conveyer checks that the right pages are in the right order and a binding machine sticks the pages together. A sharp blade cuts the pages and a hard back is added.

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How Books Are Made - How Do They Do IT? (Printing Twilight Books)

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Ever Wondered how books are printed in the modern 21st century!!

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The guardian has two print centres located in London and in Manchester. Newspapers are most often printed on a webpress. A webpress is huge and can print millions of copies in a few hours. The guardian has two print centres located in London and in Manchester.

During the day, the press is prepared to roll all night. The paper rolls are large and a small rip could result in a huge loss of newspapers. The press is three stories high and is a continuous process, there is no time taken to load new paper on. After the newspaper has been printed by the machine, it is folded by another machine and ready to be put on shelves.

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Photos are printed on photographic paper by a different process than those printed in a magazine.

The colours in the photographic print are produced by chemicals and dyes contained within the photographic emulsion that are sensitive to different wavelengths of light. The image from a negative is projected onto a sheet of photographic paper. The image is then developed and fixed by chemicals.

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Show a step by step of how you made your potato print designs:

Equipment needed:

-Potatoes

-Knife

-Shirt, tea towel or paper to print on

-Paper plate

-Acrylic paints

-Newspaper

-A nail

-Paper towel

-Card

Step by step:

1. Gather all of your materials.

2. Place your newspaper on the table underneath where you are going to be printing.

3. Slice your potatoes in half using your knife.

4. Draw the picture that you want on to the potato to help you know where to carve. (Optional)

5. Carve out your design in the potato.

6. Wipe the potato with the paper towel so that it's dry.

7. Squirt the colour paint that you've chosen onto the paper plate.

8. Either dip your potato in the paint or use a paint brush to apply an even coat.

9. Place a piece of card inside your shirt where you will be printing so that the paint doesn't go through.

10. Press the painted potato onto your shirt and press down firmly.

11. Take off the potato.

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Present potato print outcomes to the class.

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production - Task 1: Potato Printing Techniques 

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Review on work.

Skills and Knowledge:

You must be creative in order to do well at potato printing. It helps if you're naturally good at carving. You must be well able to use a knife without cutting yourself.

Costs:

Paints: £3.00

Paintbrushes: £1.00

Potatoes: £1.00

T-shirt: £2.50

The rest I found around my house.

Speed:

9:30 - 10:30 Carving the potatoes.

11:00 - 12:30 Painting and printing the potatoes.

1:30 - 3:00 Experimenting with other forms of printing (Leaf and sponge).

Any technical concern:

Carving the potatoes was difficult and I accidentally did my letter the wrong way around. Getting the surface of the potato was also challenging.