PRI-131                                                          PRINTING-I                                     3(0-3)

Course Description:

The objective of this course is the understanding for printing, reproduction, design, and finishing for the print material. This facility will enhance the printing communication with new design technology, high quality reproduction, and the most efficient state of the art finishing machines. Through several techniques of printing students will understand the printing behavior.

Learning Outcomes:

Students who complete Techniques of Printing will be able to:

• Understand the process of printing material
• Prepared for the challenges of professional practice with an understanding of the role design can play within the community and in solving problems, large and small.
• Prepared with the studio and technical skills.
• Well versed in the design process and will understand how to use concept and research to develop effective designs after understanding the different printing process
• Understand applications of design principles and the difference in a good or bad design
• Use perspective in a design to make the design appear real by altering of size, location of objects on a canvas

Course Objectives:

• Apply the following printmaking processes: intaglio and relief, or lithography and serigraphy using sound technical methods.
• Use multi-colour printing process.
• Complete an edition of prints consisting of a minimum of twelve prints.
• Apply personal aesthetics in printmaking.

Course Content:

• Introduction to the history of printmaking and printmaking techniques.
• Discussion of the primary innovators of printmaking techniques.
• Introduction of the basic techniques used in the course.

• Relief Printing
• Intaglio Printing
• Planographic Printing
• Modern Process of Printing

• Unique Prints
• Stenciling
• Lino Cut (mono chrome)
• Experiments with tinted and shaded colored papers
• Wood Cut (mono chrome)
• Etching
• Aquating

• Presentation: Matting, mounting, and framing techniques

Reference/Helping Material:

• Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick, "Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes." Prentice Hall, 2009.
• Bamber Gascoigne: How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet
• Judging the Authenticity of Prints by The Masters by art historian David Rudd Cycleback
• Relief printing techniques as used and described by French printmaker Dominique Lecomte
• Multi-Color Block Prints: Wood/Linoleum - Reduction Method Technique, by Hannah Tompkins

Websites:

• http://www.nontoxicprint.com/perfectregistration.htm
• http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/136140/bunbury-alisa-not-picassos-invention--a-foray-into.aspx

Recommended Texts

1. Hird, K. F. (1995). Offset lithographic technology. Goodheart-Willcox Pub.
2. Parsons, M. (2007). Letterpress Printing: A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers, by Paul Maravelas. Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, 45(1).
3. Tomašegović, T., Mahović Poljaček, S., & Cigula, T. (2013). Impact of screen ruling on the formation of the printing elements on the flexographic printing plate. Acta graphica: znanstveni časopis za tiskarstvo i grafičke komunikacije, 24(1-2), 1-12.

Suggested Readings

1. Gilbert, E. D., & Lee, F. (2008). Flexographic plate technology: conventional solvent plates versus digital solvent plates. Journal of Industrial Technology, 24(3), 1-7.
2. Poljacek, S. M., Cigula, T., Tomasegovic, T., & Brajnović, O. (2013). Meeting the quality requirements in the flexographic plate making process. International Circular of Graphic Education and Research, (6), 62-68.
3.  Patel, S. (2009). Determining the effect of printing ink sequence for process colors on color gamut and print quality in flexography.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• Sessional:     20   (PowerPoint Presentations, Practical Assignments and Homework)
• Mid exam:    30
• Final exam:  50

RULES AND REGULATIONS

• Class attendance policy: 75% Attendance is compulsory.