Relief printing is a printmaking process where protruding surface faces of the printing plate or block are inked; recessed areas are ink free. Printing the image is therefore a relatively simple matter of inking the face of the matrix and bringing it in firm contact with the paper. A printing-press may not be needed as the back of the paper can be...
in art printmaking, a process consisting of cutting or etching a printing surface in such a way that all that remains of the original surface is the ...
A printing technique in which the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are left raised, while the remaining areas are cut away. Woodcuts and linoleum prints (linocuts) are relief prints.
A generic term for printing from surfaces which are raised so that ink is deposited only on the image that is to be transferred to paper
[n] - printing from a plate with raised characters
a type of printmaking in which the image to be printed is raised from the background.
Printing method whose image carriers are surfaces with two levels having inked areas higher than non-inked areas. Relief printing includes block printing, flexography and letter press.
letterpress noun printing from a plate with raised characters