There are four traditional types of printing: relief printing (with which this article is mainly concerned), intaglio, lithography, and screen process printing. Intaglio (pronounced en/TAHL/yoh) is an Italian word that means to carve or cut into. These depressions and recesses are created by acid (in etching and aquatint), by burin or graver (in line and stipple engraving), or direct scratching and scoring on the metal (in drypoint). Means of producing reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. Intaglio In intaglio printing, an impression is made by pushing the paper into inked depressions and recesses in a metal plate. In hard-ground etching the plate, usually of copper or zinc, is given a thin coating or ground of acid-resistant resin. The art of engraving with acid on metal also the print taken from the metal plate so engraved. In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a graver, or burin. Using a variety of drypoint tools, Susan Rostow, Inventor of Akua Inks creates her image on an Akua. In its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing. See up close how a drypoint plate is created and printed. The burr of metal holds more ink than the incised line and gives the rich, velvety stroke characteristic of the technique. Seals and signet rings usually bear intaglio designs, so that when stamped upon wax or other plastic substance the impression is in relief. Drypoint is an intaglio method in which a sharp needle or diamond point is used to scratch a line onto a metal plate. The design, often a portrait head, is commonly cut in the light-colored vein, and the dark one is left as the background.

, small relief carving, usually on striated precious or semiprecious stones or on shell. It is the reverse of a relief or cameo cameo Intaglio (ДntДѓl`yЕЌ, вЂ“tГ¤l`вЂ“), design cut into stone or other material or etched or engraved in a metal plate, producing a concave, instead of a convex, effect.

Drypoint intaglio