"' Typometry "'was a short-lived relief printing technique developed during the maps, drawings and other designs, using moveable type to reproduce words, lineworks and map symbols.
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Relief printing is an inexpensive but labour-intensive printing technique; it was accessible to socially conscious artists who wanted to tell wordless stories of the working classes.
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Unlike later techniques, woodcut uses relief printing just as metal moveable type does, so that pages including both text and illustration can be set up and printed together.
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Most of his woodcuts were created from dead or damaged tree parts that he collected and took to his studio to prepare cross-sections of the wood for relief printing.
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The matrix in relief printing is classically created by starting with a flat original surface, and then removing ( e . g ., by carving ) away areas intended to print white.
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The custom-designed space included a gallery, paper mill, and facilities for all fine art printmaking media : intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, and woodblock relief printing, as well as facilities for the production of unique works and multiples.
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A Boston native, Rimmer served in the Army during World War II and later became president of the family business, Relief Printing Corp . He started a publishing company, Challenge Press, and published some of his own works.
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"' Letterpress printing "'is a technique of relief printing using a printing press, a process by which many copies are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper.
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More recently, flongs have been made of phenolic resin boards ( perhaps also plastic and rubber ) and are still used in places to cast rubber stamp sheets instead of type metal stereos, the last commercial use is certain types of rubber relief printing mats ( sheets ) for flexo printing.
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In practice, letterpress also includes other forms of relief printing with printing presses, such as wood engravings, photo-etched zinc " cuts " ( plates ), and linoleum blocks, which can be used alongside metal type, or wood type, in a single operation, as well as stereotypes and electrotypes of type and blocks.
