Speciality Printing Mock-ups

ASSIGNMENT:

  • Create mockup/prototype examples of the 5 Specialty printing processes.
  • Create a custom portfolio/folder to hold all of them together.
  • Upload JPEG images of each plus a jpeg of your folder to the Canvas Assignment page.

    Specialty Printing Processes:
  • Embossing
  • Etched Glass
  • Foil Stamping
  • Aqueous Coating
  • Transfer Printing

Embossing/Blind Embossing

Blind embossing experiments; testing various papers and methods for using a linocut block for embossing design. The papers from Awagami Paper (https://awagami.com/) are Bunkoshi Select and Bamboo Select. Also the widely available Fabriano Rosaspina. (https://www.lauraboswell.co.uk/shop.php) and the flat chisel came from Handprinted (https://handprinted.co.uk/) A wooden spoon is a highly successful choice for burnishing or rubbing the paper down.

Best papers for embossing are soft papers with a lot of cotton content, not stiff or “card stock”.

Pattern to be embossed can be: cut from matte board and glued to a carrier sheet, or layers removed from matte board sheet or from a linoleum cut block.

If using an etching press to apply pressure, dampen the paper first.

Etched Glass

Use clear, adhesive-backed shelf paper as the frisket or stencil paper. Sand blaster set on low pressure (need to experiment with this to find the ideal pressure). Alternative is glass acid etch from hobby stores.

Foil Stamping

Use a Cricket or Heidi Swap Minc or iron to apply high heat and pressure to heat transfer colored foil to a toner based print image.

Aqueous Coating

Use low-tack frisket to cut a stencil of your design. Spray Krylon Crystal Clear Gloss coat to achieve the effect.

Transfer Printing

Use a Photocopy or Toner-based image to print. Use a colorless blender marker from ChartPak. Print your design wrong-reading orientation. Turn the print upside down on the surface you wish the final print to be on. Apply the colorless blender to the back of the paper which has you toner print on. Quickly burnish (rub) down the image to transfer it.

Xerox or photocopy from B/W laser printer or photocopier. Must use toner not ink. Use colorless blender marker from Chartpak (other brands do not work) to transfer printed image to other surfaces. Print image reverses on transfer.

ADDITIONAL Specialty Printing Options:

Letterpress

A form of relief printing it was the state-of-the-art form of commercial printing from the late 15th century until the late 20th century across the world. Today it remains in use for its ability to produce a specific printing look for typography. It is produced by using foundry type locked in a chase locked up on a press, inked and printed.

Vinyl Letters

Vinyl cutter to plot/cut vinyl graphics. Weed excess and transfer image or text using masking tape. Printing on Bottles and non-flat surfaces