Deanna Pearce by Deanna

Assignment 1: Investigating Print Based Media Production -

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:01:57 UTC

Hand Printing - Intaglio

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:17:23 UTC

The materials that are used to make a Intaglio print are: Copper, Zinc and Steel coated with acid resistant wax, Etching needles to carve out the pattern, acids to eat away the exposed metal and the ink to transfer the Pattern onto paper. The cost for a roller is from £30 - £100. The advantages is that is easy to make the pattern on the metal. The disadvantage is that the process of the acid bath can be time consuming.

Hand Printing - Screen Print

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:18:11 UTC

The materials that are used to make a Screen Print are: The emulsion which the template is burned on to by UV(Ultra Violet light), a squeegee and ink. The beginners pack from "Home Craft" costs £79.99. The advantage for Screen Printing is that it can make many of the same product at he same time on a produtcion line. Disadvantages the material can rip when you print the design on the product.

Hand Printing - Woodcut

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:18:41 UTC

The material that you need for Woodcut Printing are: a block of Plywood, Chisels, Oil based ink and the rolling machine. The cost of the Plywood, Chisels, Oil Based Ink and Rolling Machine costs in a total of £125.90. The advantages of Woodcut Printing is the picture is detailed when its been transferred onto paper. The disadvantage of Woodcut Printing is that you can accidentally cut yourself when you carve out the pattern on the wood.

Hand Printing - Lithography

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:20:02 UTC

The Materials that are used for Lithography are: Paper, Water and Oils. The Lithography starter kit costs £37.50. The advantage with Lithography is that the picture is made with different tones of the colour used on the paper. The disadvantage of Lithography is that the paper can get with the water and oils used to make the picture.

Hand Printing - Etching

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 09:26:37 UTC

The materials used to make a Etched picture are : The metals Copper, Zinc and Steel that are coated acid resistant wax, Etching needles to carve out the pattern, the acid to eat away the exposed metal and the ink. The costs of the metals can be up to £125 a piece. The advantages for Etched pictures is that the pictures are very detailed. The disadvantages of Etching are that the acid bath takes some time to eat the exposed metal.

Mechanical Printing - Letterpress

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 12:57:20 UTC

The materials that are used for Letter printing are: Ink, Templates, Paper and the rolling machine. The price of the starter kit is £187.11 Roughly. The advantages of the Letterpress is that its good to put texture onto paper. The disadvantage is that the template could move as you start to roll the paper though the machine and the outcome would be that the layout on the paper is not straight.

Mechanical Printing - Gravure

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 12:58:18 UTC

The Materials used to make a Gravure print are: A engraved cylinder with the pattern as a template, Ink and paper. The Gravure Printing can costs £50.99. The advantages of Gravure printing is that the template can print the same design on paper so that you have plenty of the Design that you been printing. The disadvantage is that the design could not be straight on he paper.

Mechanical Printing - Screen Process

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 13:42:20 UTC

The materials used to make the Screen process are: The template, ink and paper. Screen Process costs £50 for the set including the ink. The advantage of Screen Process is that its easy to use the equipment and easy to print on the paper. The disadvantage of Screen Process is that is the materials can rip if there is too much pressure on the material.

Digital Printing - Photocopier

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 13:47:42 UTC

The materials used for photocopying are: Paper, Ink, The template and the photocopier machine. The costs of the Photocopier machine is £250 on "eBay" The advantage of photocopying is that it can print up to any amount of the same thing. The Disadvantage is that photocopying is that its wates trees.

Digital Printing - Laser Print

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 14:17:58 UTC

The materials that are used are: Ink, Paper and Laser Printer. A Laser printer from "Staples" costs £59. The advantage from Laser printing is that it prints data from the computer onto paper. The disadvantage is that it uses a lot of paper and ink.

Digital Printing - Inkjet

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 14:18:56 UTC

The Materials that a inkjet uses are: Ink, Paper, A Inkjet printer ad the data that is being printed off. The cost of a Inkjet printer from Argos is £34.99. The advantage of a Inkjet Printer is that it can print out work. The disadvantage of InkJet Printer is that it needs a contant flow of paper to print on.

Digital Printing - Desktop Publishing

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 14:19:40 UTC

The materials for Desktop Publishing are: The Desktop Publishing software, The heat print and the heat proof paper. The cost of the software for the Desktop Publishing is £4.97. The advantage of Desktop Publishing is that you can make designs for templates to make logo for a product. The disadvantage of Desktop Publishing is that the design can move as you print it on the product.

Digital Printing - Digital Screen Printing

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 14:21:19 UTC

The materials used for Digital Screen Printing are: The heat press, The heat proof paper, The product that your printing the design onto. The cost of the heat press is roughly £250. The advantages of the Digital Screen Printing is that you can put a favourite picture on a cup or clothes. The disadvantage of Digital Screen Printing is that the heart could burn the clothes or cup the design is going on.

Assignment 1: Investigating Print Based Media Production - Task 1: Techniques & Technology Unit 18 (P1 Part 2)

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-24 14:58:50 UTC

Hand Printing - Screen Print

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-30 11:09:42 UTC

The skills that i will need to do a screen print is that i will need to know how long to put the light sensitive paper in the UV light for and how much ink and pressure needed to transfer the design onto paper. The cost of Screen Printing set from Home crafts is £79.99. The speed of Screen Printing is that it takes a few seconds to transfer the design onto paper. The mesh template that is light sensitive can lose its pattern if it stays in the light too long and can rip if too much pressure is put on the template. The history of Screen Printing is that the artist Andy Warhol used screen printing to make the Marilyn Monroe picture in 1962. Then in 1969 when they made a machine to help with the printing so that they could print in batches on clothes of the logos of bowler teams.

The YouTube video shows screen printing step by step.

Mechanical Printing - Letterpress

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-30 11:21:53 UTC

The skills i would need to do letterpress is how to use that letterpress machine. The speed of a letter press machine can be quick but can be slow at the start as you need to get the right amount of pressure to get the ink on the paper and the pattern to be engraved onto the paper. The machine can have a paper jam or the ink starts to run low. The letterpress was used to make train tickets in the 1970s and the letterpress is used nowadays to make cards with a textured pattern.

The YouTube clip below show how to make a letter pressed innovation.

Digital Printing - Photocopying

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-09-30 11:35:20 UTC

The skills required to Photocopy a design is that you know how to use a photocopier machine and software. The cost of a photocopier from EBay is £250. The process can take up to a few minutes all depends on how much must be photocopied. The photocopier could brake down with paper jam or run out of ink. In 1938 was when Chester Carlson made the first Photocopier for the workplace that he worked at when a co-woker needed copies of some important documents.

The YouTube clicp below shows how to use a Photocopier.

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

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-10-01 13:59:11 UTC

1) Show step by step of how i made my Photo print designs.

from 9:30 Am - i started to carve designs into the potato after the research to look at Halloween type of designs. 10:45 Am - i stared to get my colours and paper ready so that i could start printing the designs on the potato onto paper. 11:00 Am - i started to print the designs from potato to paper with different colours. After i printed the design on to paper i left it to dry.

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

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-10-01 14:01:16 UTC

2) present the potato Printing i have done. The work i did are the Paw Prints which are frist shown.

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

deanna_pearce19 — 2013-10-01 14:02:08 UTC

3) Review on my work.

Skills and Knowledge - The skills and knowledge that I needed to know was what was the best technique to carve out the design in the potato with the tools and how to use the tools effectivly.

Costs - The costs of the requirements I used are :

Brown Paper - £1.00

Chopping Board - £1.50

Peeler - £2.00

Apron - £3.00

Nails - £1.70

Paper plates - 99p

Paint brushes - £1.99

Sponges - 79p

Acrylic paints - £2.99

The overall total that it costed me was £16.96

Any technical considerations - I found that potato printing was easy because i found the best technique for me on carving the potato with the tools and found a way to put the right amount of paint on the design that would not be too much when i transferred the design onto paper it would not smudge or move under the pressure that I put on the potato to transfer the design.

What uses do they have today and though out history?

I found out that Potato's have been around for a long time where they have been used as weapons against predators of the humankind as well as food. Potato's was used as a source of early graphic communication (information found from Zazaziza website)