Carborundum printmaking

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For other uses, see Intaglio (disambiguation)

Carborundum printmaking is a collograph printmaking technique in which the image is created by adding light passages to a dark field. Normally, cardboard or wood plates are used as a plate, the surface is coated in a layer of carborundum or screen, and the lights are created by filling in the texture with screen filler or glue. Carborundum prints may be printed as intaglio plates. To print a carborundum print, the surface is covered in ink, and then the surface is wiped clean with tarlatan cloth or newspaper, leaving ink only in the texture of the screen or carborundum. A damp piece of paper is placed on top, and the plate and paper are run through a printing press that, through pressure, transfers the ink from the recesses of the plate to the paper.

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Contrast with relief printing, and with planographic printing techniques such as lithography.

[edit] See also

• Collograph
• Intaglio