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Assessment Feedback - Assessor Delta Muntean 

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Assessment Feedback - Assessor Delta Muntean 

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UNIT 18: Producing Print-Based Media

Grading Criteria 1

Assignment 1 - Investigating Print-Based Media Production

Task 1: Techniques & technology – Unit 18 (P1 Part)

Task 2: Print products and printers – Unit 18 (P1, M1 & D1)

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Materials - Copper, zinc or steel are usually the metals used as a base in etching but glass is also used.  A waxy ground is used in this process then appointed etching needle is used to create the design in the waxy ground. The d esign is actually printed onto the metal by a strong acid.

Cost- Glass etching can cost up to $125 but the normal cost for copper and steel etching is between $5-$10.  But the thinner the alloy metal the higher the price.

Advantages and DIsadvantages -The advantages of hand etching are that is a hard skill to master but when you have mastered it you become unique and can charge large amount of money, and because you can etch on many different material you can be versatile for the customer and more appealing and have a wider market.

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Materials- Intaglio is the same process of etching with a extra process on the end of adding ink into the groves that the acid has made and then wiping over with a tarlatan cloth.

Cost-The costing of intaglio is similar to etching because it takes the same skills and materials.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantages of intaglio are that the skills highly regarded just like etching, but the disadvantages would be that it takes a long time, its very time consuming.

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Materials- Woven mesh is normally used as a base in this process, this supports an ink blanket – this makes the design around a stencil.  This process can be used on p aper to make posters, stickers. It can be also used on wood and other materials that can keep and image on the surface.

Cost- To screen print t-shirts is would normally cost between £4-£5. But depending on the design and the company the price may rise.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantage of screen-printing is that you can print text or images onto a wide variety of materials.  The disadvantage would be that the design can’t be to complicated otherwise the lines of the design wouldn’t be so clean.

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Materials- Wood is used as the base in this process, the block of wood is carved away at to create a white part of the image and then the rest of he wood is rubbed over with either sand paper or a chisel so blacken the wood. The block is then pressed into different ink and then onto a variety of materials such as fabric and paper.

Cost- The cost of woodcut images cost range between £50-£200. This depends on the detail and the age of the piece.

Advantages and disadvantages- A disadvantage of woodcut printing would be that it takes a long time but the advantage of that is you can use the actual wood block more than once to create the same image multiple times.

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Materials - A tool called a tusche is used on a block of porous limestone to make an image. This is then placed into some kind of ink and printed on either, fabric, paper or metal.

Cost-  Some older pieces of lithography can cost up to $500. This is because of the designs and the age of the piece.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantage of lithography is that it can be used many times to create the same image. The disadvantage is that it can take a lot of time to get a good print because the limestone is very smooth.

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Materials- A printing press pulls paper through and presses ink on the paper using either wood engraving or linoleum blocks.

Cost- Costing’s vary from company to company. Smaller company’s tend to be more expensive then larger company’s.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantage of using a letter press would be it’s a fast way to process many of the same image of text. But the disadvantage would be that the printing press and parts can cost a lot.

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Materials- A printing plate is used to press ink into paper of cardboard.

Cost - The cost of gravure printing is relatively cheap because the printing plate can be used over and over and the materials aren’t to expensive.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantage of gravure printing is that it is quick and can be done cheaply; this is good for customers as well as the company itself. The disadvantage of this method is that the start up cost is a lot.

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Materials - This is a process using a fine mesh fabric in a wooden block. A stencil is placed under the wooden frame and a block of rubber pushes ink through the mesh and on to either paper of fabric.

cost- The fabric used in this process costs $10-$40 per square yard.  So prices vary between different manufacturers.

advantages and disadvantages- The advantages of this process are that you can print on to many different materials to go with different promotions. The disadvantage would be that the designs have to be simple or the design won’t come out as sharp.

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Materials- A photocopier uses paper and ink as its only materials.

Cost- The cost of using a photocopier is no more than 10p. But to buy a printer/scanner/copier it would cost £50. Office desktop would cost £200. Floor standing would cost £2000

Advantages and Disadvantages- The advantage of using a photocopier you get a
exact copy. But the disadvantage is that you have to have a copy in the first place and it can cost quite a lot of money.

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Materials- A laser printer used toner and paper to make copies.

Cost- The cost of a laser printer would be around £200-£300. For a desktop laser printer.

Advantages and disadvantages- An advantage of a laser printer is that it is fast.  But the disadvantage is that it is that you have to have a copy to copy from.

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materials- Inkjet printers use droplets of ink on paper, plastic and  many other materials.

Cost- The cost of a desktop inkjet printer would be from £30-£100.

Advantages and Disadvantages - The advantages of an inkjet printer is that i nkjet printers are very cheap and can produce good images but the disadvantage is that the ink re-fills can cost more than the printer itself.

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Digital Printing- Desktop publishing (DTP)

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Digital Printing- Desktop publishing (DTP)

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Materials- You would have to use a PC or a Mac in this process, which is linked to a desktop printer.

Cost-The cost of this would be the cost of the computer which could be anything between £200-£500. And maybe the cost of the programs if they weren’t already installed.

Advantages and Disadvantages- The advantages of desktop publishing would be
that you can always change the design because its on a desktop. The disadvantages of this thought would be it is very expensive.

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Digital Printing - Digital Screen Printing 

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Digital Printing - Digital Screen Printing 

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materials- You would need a Pc or a Mac for this process and a printer. But you can print onto paper or fabric.

Cost- The cost of this would include the fabric or paper and the computer and printer.

Advantages and disadvantages- The advantages of this method would be that you can change your design and get a better design because it would be more detailed.

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Screen Printing-

Skills and knowledge required- If you are screen printing on to material, you need to know the curve of the material and how to lower the chance of breaking the design, you do this by stretching out the material.

costs-  The costs to produce 25-49 printed t-shirts with just one colour on can cost 1.69 a shirt. This can go up with the amount of shirts and the amount of colours.

speed aesthetic consideration- This process is relatively fast depending on the d epth of the design. The aesthetic of the finished piece of this process is very clean looking if done p roperly.

technical consideration- To do this process well you would need to have a clean working area because you wouldn’t want different colours to get mixed and ruin the design or stain the fabric. You would also need a good place to hang the fabric for drying. This process would need a steady hand.

what uses they have today and through history- The use for this process today is to create t-shirts and another commercial things as well as for art. In the past it has been used as an artists tool.

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Screen printing (sometimes called silk screening, or serigraphy) is a fantastic artistic technique which is especially useful for printing onto material. The process is easy, versatile and relatively cheap so everyone should give it a go!...

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How 2 Make A Screen Print Using a Handmade Stencil

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How 2 Make A Screen Print Using a Handmade Stencil Visit http://whimsypapermache.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-2-make-screen-print-using-handmade.html for a list of all materials used. I will show you how easy it is to make a screen print using the simple stencil technique. This technique can then be used to screen print on a T-Shirt or whatever.

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LetterPress

skills and knowledge required- The skills and knowledge needed to run a letter press would be knowing how to set the letters up in the machine, and how it effetely works just incase something goes wrong. They also need patients because it is very time consuming.

cost- The letterpress is the most expensive form of printing and is usually only used for special occasions such as weddings. For a set of 100 single sided wedding invitations it would cost £3.00 per invitation.

speed aesthetic- The letterpress is a slow process but it gives a very good clean result that is why it is used for special occasions.

technical considerations- The technical things you need to look out for when using a printing press would be to keep the letters themselves clean and only colours in the one ink because a mix of inks wouldn’t give the same clean effect.

what uses they have now and though history- The letterpress is now used for special occasions such as wedding invitations. In the past the letterpress was used for everything even p rinting newspapers this has changed now because of how long the process is.

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Every once in a while, it's a good idea to step away from the computer and get your hands dirty. Some people become so accustomed to designing with a computer that they often forget design can be a real tangible process with loads of inspirational results.

So, give your computer a break. Let's roll up our sleeves and explore one of my favorite activities - letterpress printing.

1. Sketching

No matter your medium of choice, a good design always begins with a sketch. At this point, let your ideas run wild. There's no need for perfection - the rougher the sketch the better.

2. Finding the perfect typeface

The fundamentals of letterpress printing begin with the type case. Each type case contains all the numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, special characters, ligatures, punctuation and spaces for a particular typeface in a particular point size and in a particular style.

Fun Fact: The origin of the term upper and lower case is derived from the strategic layout of these type cases.

3. Setting type

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.

Metal type is set one letter at a time, from left to right, in the composing stick. Once a line of type is set, a piece of lead measuring 2 points thick is placed on top before a new line of type is set.

Fun Fact: The typographical term "leading" is derived from the pieces of lead that are placed between lines of type to create spacing.

4. Tying your type

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. The recommended technique is to wrap the string clockwise around the type 5 times.

5. Proofing

Before you can go to press, it's important to proof your work to make sure everything is perfect from spelling to line spacing. You wouldn't want any surprises or hiccups later on.

6. The chase around

After the proofing process, the 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 strategically 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.

7. To the press

With a nice blue ink picked out, the metal chase is placed into the Chandler & Price Press. The press is operated by a foot pedal, fly wheel and lever.

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

8. Ta-da!

After all the printing was done, the cards were cut and trimmed to size.

Fun Fact: Each Community Team member only got about 6 cards.

What kind of "outside the computer" things do you do? Let me know.

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Letter, press, and print! A step-by-step on letterpress printing - Designer Blog

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Every once in a while, it's a good idea to step away from the computer and get your hands dirty. Some people become so accustomed to designing with a computer that they often forget design can be a real tangible process with loads of inspirational results. So, give your computer a break.

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Intermittent Rotary Letterpress Printing Machine

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Learning how to Print Letterpress (Kelsey Press, Vandercook, & Showcard)

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Featured are the Showcard Proofing Press, 8x10 Kelsey, and the Vandercook 219. In this video I demonstrate three great presses housed at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I show from start to finish how to ink up, operate, and clean each press as well as how to use the guillotine cutter, how to oil the Vandercook, and how to change the packing.

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Photocopying.

skills and knowledge required- The skills to use a photocopier are very basic unless you have to re-fill the ink cartridges especially on a floor standing photocopier normally used in big business.

costs - The cost of a floor standing printer would be around £2000. A price for a desktop printer would be around £150-£200. Then you would have to buy re-fill ink cartridge’s.

speed aesthetic considerations- The speed of a photocopier fast, and it gives you good clear results if you have copied an image or text that hasn’t got a vast colour difference. To copy a image in colour thought the process would be longer but not by much.

technical considerations- You don’t want to put a fuzzy or unclear image into the photocopier because it decency of the image will going lower. You also need to keep the copier itself clean incase of defects to the screen which scans the image.

what uses they have today and through history-- Photocopiers have always been used to copier images or text exactly. By now people are starting to develop a new style of printer which can change a 2D image into a 3D image, but in many stages.

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-BAsed Media Production-  Task 2 : print products and printers (P1 part) 

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Assignment 1: Investigating Print-BAsed Media Production-  Task 2 : print products and printers (P1 part) 

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The Guardian newspaper is a type of print product.

the Guardian print centre had two bases one in London and the other in Manchester.

in  t he london centre the newspaper is printed on a 2 MAN Colorman Presses and in manchester a
1 MAN Colorman Press is used.

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News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's UK edition | The Guardian

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Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

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To print the magazine you have to create a plate this is a piece of aluminium with ink on which go inside giant presses, paper is loaded into one side and the ink is printed onto the paper by the aluminium sheet to make a page in a magazine. when the pages are printed they are cut and bounded together with staples.

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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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leaflets can be printed in many different sizes, colours, designs and they can be made of different materials.

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Leaflet printing process leaflet printing

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leaflet printing at http://www.printed.com/products/4/leaflets--flyers It's easy to get your leaflets printed within 24 hours of supplying the required artwork to printed.com. They are able to offer trade prices on high-quality, full-colour leaflet and flyer printing and a diverse range of paper stocks. For easy-to-hand-out leaflets, choose 130gsm paper in gloss or silk finish.

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to process photographers in a dark room, you first turn off the light, then take a photo you want to make visible and put it in a press.
take the photo out of the press and place it in a development liquid, leave it in there for 1 minute. After a minute take it out and put it into the stopping liquid for a minute then into the fixer for a minute. rinse the image in water for at least 5 minutes then leave to dry.

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How to make prints from 35mm negitives in a dark room Shot with the Canon 60D using the Canon 50mm f1.8 and Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 song - Anemone by The Brian Jonestown Massacre i have no rights to the song, fair usage legal bs

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to use this machine you must first engage the clutch, this will start the machine. the vacuum arm will pull the paper up into the machine where the windmill arms will press the paper against the ink plate and then onto the side with the rest of the copied cards.

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Shelburne Museum Master Printer Heather Hale

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In the Print Shop - making holiday cards on the Heidelberg press

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Shelburne Museum Master Printer Heather Hale explains the process of making holiday cards on the museum's Heidelberg press.

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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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1) First of all you need to cut your potato’s in half and put

them on a towel to take some of the moister away so the paint will stay on the potato.

2)Then you can carve a design into your potato base using something like a screw or small carving knife.

3)When you’ve carved your potato leave it on the towel for a bit longer.

4)While you’re waiting pick out your fabric or paper you’re going to print onto.

5)Put your paints on a paper plate and have a paintbrush to hand to paint the potato base if needed.

6)Once your already you can start printing, you do this by taking the potato you have cut and placing in face down in the paint,

7)Then take your potato and place in on the fabric or paper your printing on to, you may have to press down if the potato is not completely level otherwise you might not get a complete print.

8)Once you’ve done this a few times in different colours and different print shapes take your fabric or paper and put it somewhere to dry.

R eview own wor k: I think that my work was good but not professional looking, i think this was because i wasn't sharp enough with my cutting to make a clear and clean outline of the shape. to make my work better also i could of made my paint thicker or applied it evenly to the potato to make to cleaner.

skills and knowledge: To do potato successfully you need to have certain skills like being able to cut the potato so that is makes a sharp print on the paper/material you use. To do this you need to be accurate when cutting and know what you want your print to look like on the paper. you also need the knowledge to decided what paper/ material you are going to use because different materials give different finishes.

Any technical considerations: There are a few technical things you have to worry about when potato printing like what cutting tool makes the best print and also what paint to use that doesn't leak everywhere and make a mess and also makes a clean print. you also have to make sure you have a large working space because all the equipment takes up a lot of space, you also need drying space.

cost: The cost of potato printing isn't to expensive, you can buy a pack of potatoes for about £2.50, the paint for about a pound (little tester pots) and a roll of brown paper costs about 50p. but if you wanted to spend more and get extra bits you could but the basics of potato printing is cheap.

what uses they have now and throughout history:potato printing is used mostly for teaching children about shapes and for art purposes but in the past it was used for sign making, in general for printing letters for the public signs or notices.

speed: potato printing can take a long time but this is because of the potato cutting, thats the time consuming part. After that the process is relatively fast.

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Harlow College Performing Arts Promo Video

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Credit Diploma in Creative Media Production

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Creative Media Production and Technology

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Harlow College L3 Creative Media Production Year 1

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Unit 18: Producing Print-Based Media Potato Printing Tue 1st Oct

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you can pay as little or as much as you like depending on what type of effect you want. This is a fairly quick method of printing but only after carving the potato because that can be very time consuming, the best way to do this would be carve everything sharply but this can take even more time, but I gives a really clear print if you do this as well as pushing down when printing on to fabric. Potato printing is used now days for teaching little children how to print because it’s cheap and affective, but it is also used to make logos. These logos aren’t completely potato printings but they could start out that way and get turned into something digital.