Everything on the bill’s verso is lithography (looking flat) except the serial number which is a relief and shows characteristic edges-rim.Īlso another large category. On the other hand, the ink of the background pattern is flat, characteristic of lithography.Ģ0 Euro bill, verso. The architectural details are printed in intaglio and the ink looks raised in raking light. The general characteristic of lithographic printing is both ink and paper flatness.
This last one will stick only to the greasy drawing and the stone can be etched. Then the surface is covered with a film of water and then one of ink. Briefly, with the invention of lithography, the artist was freed from any curving and engraving the artist could just draw as usual but on a prepared stone using specific greasy pencils for lithography. There are wonderful videos on the internet that illustrate how this method is done just search for “lithography”. Planographic is a large category which encompasses the numerous variant of lithography whose first process was discovered in 1798.
#Monochrome printing how to#
As usual, I don’t discuss the actual printing methods but just how to identify them. I now look with my USB microscope at some modern monochrome printing methods to highlights some of their characterizing features. I posted already on the use of a USB microscope to identify the oldest manual printing methods, relief, and intaglio.
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