Relief Printmaking Registration Marks

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Part of the video series: Relief Printmaking Print Registration

Summary: Registration marks in relief printmaking helps line up the paper in the same spot multiple times. Learn how to make registration marks with expertise from a printmaker in this free printmaking video.

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By Francine Affourtit
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Francine Affourtit is a woodcut printmaker and has taught woodcut printmaking to children, adults and teachers for a number of years. Francine is new to Austin, TX, and can be reached...read more

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"Now that I have my paper positioned where I want it to on my jig, I have my block of wood secure inside. If I'm going to be printing on this piece of paper again, I'm going to need to make registration of marks, so I'm going to mark with a piece of pencil. I have a line here. I have a line here, and a line here. With that, I can match up this piece of paper to that line, when I want to replace the paper over top, of this block of wood. Registering is one of the more difficult elements of really making process, and it may take a little bit of time for you to get the finesse of registering correctly. Here, I'm not even going to fully print the block of wood, but I'm going to get a bit of an impression. I have an impression, but I want to replace this piece of paper back on to the block of wood, and print it a second time, and I want to do so registering it perfectly, so there isn't any overlap on to the image."