Intaglio is the form of printmaking in which the image is incised into the printing plate - the incised areas hold the ink which is transferred to dampened paper, under pressure, by rolling through a press.
The plate will emboss into the paper so that you will see the tell-tale plate mark around the edges of the image and on the reverse of the print. Under the umbrella of intaglio, we find the techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint, mezzotint and collagraph.
In our series of three articles, we cover how to set up the press, how to use it for intaglio printing, as well as how to adapt it for relief printmaking.
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0:00 Introduction
0:07 Bevelling a Copper Etching Plate with a File
0:11 Using a Bevelling Tool on a Zinc Etching Plate
0:14 Sanding the Surface of a Zinc Etching Plate
0:15 Degreasing the Plate with Soy Sauce
0:16 Warming a Copper Plate to Apply Wax Ground
0:19 Melting a Wax Ground on to the Plate
0:21 Rolling a Wax Ground Across a Plate
0:27 Protecting a Warm Plate from Pliers
0:33 Lighting a Wax Taper
0:34 Smoking a Hard Ground Plate
0:41 Applying Stop out Varnish to Gaps in The Wax Ground
0:44 Drawing Through a Wax Ground with an Etching Needle
0:49 Rolling out Big Non-toxic Etching Ground
0:53 Applying Big Non-toxic Etching Ground to a Copper Plate
0:57 Drawing into Big Etching Ground Through Tissue to Create a Soft Ground Etching
1:02 Removing the Tissue from a Big Ground Before Etching
1:05 Etching a Copper Plate in Ferric Chloride Edinburgh Etch ™
1:07 Rinsing a Plate after Etching
1:12 Assessing the Depth of Bite
1:15 Placing a Zinc Plate into Copper Sulphate Crystals Mixed as Saline Sulphite Etch (© F.K. 2002)
1:19 Brushing Away Residue from Etched Lines
1:23 Rinsing an Etched Zinc Plate
1:35 Inspecting an Etched Plate
1:38 Removing a Wax Ground from Copper Plate after Etching
1:44 Inking and Wiping Etching Plates
1:48 Setting up the Fome Press
1:55 Printing an Etching on a Fome Press
1:56 Lifting the Corner of a Zinc Plate Etching
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