More Printing Resources

Graffiti Gallery’s At-Home Printing Series focuses on Relief and Monotype printing. Both are easy methods for first-timers and can open the door for a wide range of other printing methods.

A poster describing relief, intaglio, planograph, monotype, collagraph and chine-collé methods of printing.

While drawing directly onto your plate can work well for some projects, others might require a more precise method of transforming your idea into a print. Check out these methods of transferring your sketch or an image to your printing plate!

A poster outlining different methods of transferring a sketch to a lino plate.

Registration in printing is the alignment of layers and inks in your print.

With a multi-layered print, each colour will be printed with a different plate. If we register each of these layers properly they will come together to create a seamless image. If not, colours will blend and overlap, images can look blurry, or there will be unwanted gaps in the print.

A poster describing different methods of registering prints.
An image of a well-registered print.
An image of the same print, but with all of the layers askew.

A well-registered print.

A misregistered print.

A black rectangle with a white cut-out of the word Hello! and a White rectangle with the word Hello! in purple.
The top black rectangle is improperly registered, there is a small gap of white where the layers are misaligned. The rectangle below is perfectly registered.

Screenprinting

Looking into getting into Planography or Screenprinting? Try these links to find videos for newbies and experienced printers looking for DIY methods and helpful tips.