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

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 08:59:53 UTC

Present potato Print outcomes

Hand Printing - Etching

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 10:04:09 UTC

Materials: A metal usually copper, zinc or steel is used as the base and then the artist is to use an etching needle on where they want the lines to show. This is then dipped in acid and leaves the sketched lines in place.

Cost: A steel etching needle costs £8.84. Rubber squeegee strips, £0.63 (used to wipe away ink). Zinc jetplate 1000x500mm £79.65

Advantages and Disadvantages: Advantages would be that many circuits can be etched at once and that they also will be identical to each other. A Disadvantage would be that if the circuit needs to be updated then the whole thing will have to be done from scratch.

Intaglio

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 10:32:32 UTC

Materials: The same materials are used for intaglio printing as those used in etching. Both methods need an etching needle and a surface of metal. Also ink is added by wiping the plate with newspaper and letting it sink into the bitten lines.

Costs: The acid which is used for the image to be dipped in is £7.28. A steel etching needle costs £8.84.

Advantages and Disadvantages: Advantage would be that it prints many images off at time and they will all be identical. A disadvantage would be that if the circuit needs to be updated then the whole thing will need to be done again.

Screen Print

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 10:51:30 UTC

Materials: Uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil that reveals the image. A squeegee is moved across the stencil to force ink into the mesh openings. A process which uses ink to be applied onto another material.

Costs: To print screen a t-shirt most websites charge from the cost from £10 and up, but depending on the quality of the product prices may change.

Advantages and Disadvantages: An advantage of screen print would that it would be quite cheap depending on what material you want to be used. A disadvantage may be that the print may not always come out in the best quality.

Woodcut

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 10:59:45 UTC

Materials: Wood is used as the base of this printing method and either a knife, chisel or sandpaper is used to cut away at the relief pattern which is shown as white so that it gives a result of the image on the original surface.

Costs: The cost of woodcut printing can range from £50 to up to £300, this depends on the quality of the image and how old it may be.

Advantages and Disadvantages: An advantage of wood block printing is that only one piece of block is needed for it. A disadvantage would be that once you move onto the next layer no more prints can be made.

Lithography

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 11:09:45 UTC

Materials: This is mainly based on using oil and water. The printing is through stone or a smooth sheet of metal. An oil-based variety of ink is placed over the image and then over this a sheet of paper will stop it from smearing.

Cost: Depending on how many colours are used and the size of the print, prices can range from £30 up to over £1000 also depending how many you would like printed.

Advantages and Disadvantages: The advantage of this would be that you would get an identical image of what you want printed. A disadvantage is that it is a very time consuming method.

Mechanical printing- Letterpress

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 11:20:36 UTC

Materials: Printing press used to press paper onto the surface and transfer ink to another sheet of paper. Also wood engraving can be used by this method of printing.

Cost: The cost of the printing varies between which companies you decide to print from, larger companies tend to charge more as they use higher quality of equipment.

Advantages and Disadvantages: Advantage to letterpress printing would be that you could make as many copies as you want with the exact identical image. A disadvantage would be that it could come to an expensive cost depending on how many you would want to print.

Gravure

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 12:36:13 UTC

Materials: Gravure is a form of intaglio printing, it is used for things like wallpaper and gift-wrapping. A copper cylinder is used for this method, which the image is etched into.

Cost: Depending on the amount of wallpaper you want and the design cost can vary from just £10 a roll to around £50 a roll depending where you purchase from as well.

Advantages and Disadvantages: The advantage of gravure printing is that most likely the outcome from the printing such as wallpaper, is most of the time reliable depending where it's from. A disadvantage would be that maybe the process didn't work well and isn't satisfactory.

Screen Process

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 12:54:40 UTC

Materials: To imprint and stencil on an image onto a flat surface which can be wood, plastic, fabric or more. A cut out of an image on a transparent paper is use. A scoop coater, a light source, a squeegee, ink and the item you are printing the image onto.

Cost: Depending on the quantity and the colours that you want to use the cost can vary between $3.50 for 1 colour and $8 for 4 colours.

Advantages and Disadvantages: The advantages would be that is can be quite cheap for certain items to be printed. A disadvantage would be that it might not always turn out in the best quality.

Digital printing- Laser printing

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 13:06:47 UTC

Materials: A laser printer is a electrical device which uses laser beams to process over the images to produce high quality text. Ink is applied onto the material. toner is used for this method.

Cost: Depends on the brand, the higher the quality of the product the more expensive it will be.

Advantages and Disadvantages: An advantage would be that you could print as much as you need. A disadvantage would be that not always the quality of the image printed is in good condition.

Inkjet

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 13:12:39 UTC

Materials: It functions the same as a laser printer does although uses cartilage's instead of using toner.

Cost: The same as as laser printer, the cost of an Inkjet would depend on the brand of the product.

Advantages and Disadvantages: An advantage would be that it is simple to use. A Disadvantage would be that the ink could run out quickly.

Desktop Publishing (DTP)

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 13:42:34 UTC

Materials: You would need a computer for this method to be able to connect with the printer.

Cost: The price would be the cost of the computer, which can be a various cost depending which model you purchase, normally between the prices of £200-£600.

Advantages and Disadvantages: Advantage would be that as it is on a desktop you are allowed to make any changes and print it off again. The disadvantage would be that it would be very expensive to purchase a computer and sometimes separate softwares used for editing.

Digital Screen Printing

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 13:48:54 UTC

Materials: You would need a desktop and for it to be linked to the computer which would allow you to print off the fabric materials.

Cost: Would be the cost of the computer and the materials that are being used to print an image off onto.

Advantages and Disadvantages: Advantage would be that you could change the design of what you are printing off. A disadvantage would be that the design may not be the best quality as its being printed off on a fabric.

Hand printing - Etching

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 13:54:28 UTC

Skills and knowledge required: You would need a steady hand to use a steel etching needle for it to be the best quality.

Costs: A steel etching needle costs £8.84. Rubber squeegee strips, £0.63 (used to wipe away ink). Zinc jetplate 1000x500mm £79.65.

Speed aesthetic considerations: Etching is a time consuming skill so it would take a long time to do but the result is normally a high standard quality.

Technical considerations: For this method you would need to consider the time scale within the period of etching, you would need drying time for when you have used the rubber squeegee to wipe off the ink existing above the lines that have been sketched. The tools you would need would be a material of metal, squeegee strips, a steel etching needle and acid to dip the final piece into it to stop the lines from smearing.

What uses they have today and throughout history: Glasses are one of the main uses of etching today to create designs on them which people have also been using throughout history. Making glasses look nice.

Mechanical Printing- Letterpress

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 14:18:29 UTC

Skills and knowledge required: To know how to use the machine in the correct way, which would produce a clear result of a letterpress print.

Costs: The cost of the printing varies between which companies you decide to print from, larger companies tend to charge more as they use higher quality of equipment.

Speed aesthetic considerations: It only takes over a minute to letterpress and the results look good.

Technical considerations: You need to make sure that the text is the way it is meant to be and that it wouldn't get messed up during the process.

What uses they have today and throughout history: Cards and you can make as many as possible and they would be identical.

Desktop publishing (DTP)

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 14:27:24 UTC

Skills and knowledge required: To know how to use a computer and to set up your printer to link to your desktop.

Costs: Would be the costs of the computer and the printer, which would most likely be expensive depending on what brand you go for.

Speed aesthetic considerations: It only takes a few clicks.

Technical considerations: Make sure your computer is linked to the correct printer.

What uses they have today and throughout history: To print off business cards, leaflets and just about anything.

Task 2: Print products and printers - unit 18 (p1 part)

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-24 14:50:29 UTC

Photographs

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-30 18:42:08 UTC

The process to dark room printing, which prints an image of a photograph, doesn't take very long for the image to be produced

Newspapers

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-30 19:08:22 UTC

Each day the press room works with advertising determining the book structure, the page counts,
and then they make the press ready for that night’s run. They need to know the sizes of the newspaper and how long it will be able to go on for, for example; ¾ roll is 3 pages wide , 36 inches, weighs 1144 pounds. 114 pounds of the weight is in the outside 1 inch diameter, so ½ an inch of damage is going to be about £60 of newsprint damaged. The engraving process of newspaper printing involves a proof, a plate and in the process of making the plate the system will determine how much ink will be needed. They do not shut down to change rolls, it is a continuous process, each roll weighs about 1500
pounds. Belt comes down and brings incoming roll up to the same speed as the press. When speed is matched, light comes on. Transition tangent, while reels are changing, makes process slightly unstable, any registration issues likely to have happened during this process, about 4800 copies an hour are made.

Magazines

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-30 19:08:33 UTC

Before printing a magazine, a plate must be created made of aluminium that will place the ink onto the paper, the plates then go onto the press and the press is where the main action is. The press is a huge machine about 200 feet long, it consumes huge rolls of paper at one end. The paper rolls through 4 presses, one for each colour, and each of them has one of the aluminium plates on it. Paper flows through the press at hundreds of pages per second. Once the pages are printed, they can Once pages are printed, they can be bound together into final magazine: they are cut and then
loaded onto a machine that leafs all the pages together and staples them at a fast speed which are then ready to go.

Books

callyjadebooth — 2013-09-30 19:08:50 UTC

For the process of printing books you would need to do a quality check, proof read the book to make sure there's no spelling mistakes or punctuality mistakes. Check for the correct dimensions, need to be careful of the quality of images, to make sure it is the right resolution. Digital machines are used to print books, they do printing, cutting, binding and laminating. This is to preserve the quality of image and to make the life of the book longer. When covers have finished laminating and pages have been printed, each of the books are machine cut to be put together. It can be possible to print, laminate and bind at least an order of 24 books to be shipped out within 48 hours.

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

dmuntean — 2013-10-01 13:58:22 UTC

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

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

dmuntean — 2013-10-01 14:03:04 UTC

Review on Work

Skills & Knowledge: The skills and knowledge needed for potato printing is patience, this is because cutting and shaping an image onto a potato can be really tricky work.

Costs: For the whole of my equipment that I needed for potato printing I spent just under £10. Most of the essentials needed you could get around the house, the other products needed could be found any where and for a cheap price too, like at poundland or wilko.

Speed: It is a time consuming skill potato printing as there are a few steps to follow. Also the process of carving/cutting an image onto the potato would need to be done carefully and in its own time to get the best and clearest image produced.

Any Technical considerations: Yes you would have to consider the drying time of the finished product. Also the amount of equipment you would need, especially the amount of potatoes due to how many times you may need to redo it.

What uses they have today & through history: T-shirt printing is one of the most popular ones for potato printing which has been used for many years now. It can be a reliable process and mostly has good feedback from customers.

Leaflets

rebeccanunn2 — 2013-10-07 15:30:00 UTC

Leaflets use HP indigos to print. People can choose from A7-A3 sizes. They can also have landscape, portrait or square. it can either be gloss, matt or no lamination.

Assignment 1: Investigating Print-Based Media Production

dmuntean — 2013-10-08 15:14:24 UTC

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

dmuntean — 2013-10-08 15:15:00 UTC