Relief Print Quality

Video Transcript

"These two prints were both printed on a press but here we can see the difference is paper really changes the quality in how the print appears. This is a heavily textured Japanese paper that is really transparent you can see my hands through it, so therefore if it's up against any service you will also be able to see through it. The texturing of the fibers of the inside of this piece of paper, it translates into the print itself. So even though this block is printed on a press, giving that nice clean sheet of color evening pressed onto the paper, because of this texture coming through it does break up some of that clean layer and you get these lighter images where the fibers peek through the layer of printing. Now in contrast to this print, you can really see that although the broken pieces were created using a press you really have a difference in quality. You have an almost blanket color it doesn't have the textural qualities that the hand print has, but with the difference in paper it has changes how the print feels to the viewer."