Process

Giclée printing is a wholly made-up term, rather pompous honestly, as it just means ink-jet printing. But the pomposity comes from the very true fact that not all ink-jet prints are alike in quality and durability. A print you make on your home printer will typically suffer

Photogravure is a special case of intaglio printing, in which marks are made into the surface of a printing matrix (by scratching or etching) to create an image positive. Ink is pressed into the removed area, and wiped from the top surface, and paper is pressed into the recesses under

In relief printing, you carve the negative of an image into a printing plate (or matrix). The raised areas hold ink that can be pressed into paper. Traditionally, printmakers used wood blocks, or more recently linoleum flooring (which is just the right softness) to create matrices by carving away from