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In addition to the traditional relief and intaglio processes, which involve cutting into a block or plate, there are other methods of printmaking which do not, known as planographic processes. Screen printing, also known as stencil printing, involves the passing of ink or any other printing medium through a stencil, which has been applied (or exposed) onto a mesh or ‘screen’ that has been stretched on a wooden or metal frame. Many printmakers combine different intaglio techniques when they work on their plates and for this reason it is not unusual to see a contemporary print described simply as intaglio. A design or figure carved, incised, or engraved into a hard material so that it is below the surface. Engraving, etching, drypoint, carborundum, aquatint and mezzotint are the most common types of intaglio printmaking. The presence of a platemark is a good way of telling an intaglio print from a relief or planographic print. When an intaglio plate is passed through the printing press it leaves a raised area around the image where it has pressed into the paper, known as the platemark. Intaglio prints (from Italian intagliare - to engrave or incise) are those in which the image is cut into a surface or plate. When the plate is inked, the incised lines hold the ink and the image is transferred to a second surface, usually paper. The most common relief processes are woodcut, linocut and wood engraving. The raised areas are inked and the image transferred onto a second surface, usually paper. : is used in intaglio printmaking to create marks on the metal plate. Glossary definition: Aquatint Aquatint A type of intaglio using a resin coating, dipped in acid to etch an even area of half-tones. Hinds standard A History of Engraving and Etching from the 15th Century to the Year 1914 (3rd. Relief prints are those in which the areas around the image to be printed are cut away, leaving the image on the block in relief. Aquatint Aquatint is a printmaking technique that produces tonal effects by using acid to eat into the printing plate creating sunken areas which hold the ink Left Right. Histories of prints often begin with an outline of printmaking processes.