What tools do printmaking need?

There are many kinds of lithographic gravure relief plates.

The ancestors were relief plates, usually woodblock prints. The tools needed for woodcarving are woodcarving knives. Woodblock (some from Marley brand are either 5-ply or 3-ply plates with even texture and smooth surface). Printing ink and oil can be used instead of stamping tools (porcelain spoons can be printed with Ma Lian). Making paper (paper and rice paper can be used)

Gravure generally refers to the copperplate painting that you can't do by yourself. The corrosion pool of copperplate machine contains nitric acid solution, copperplate carving knife, carving needle and scraping needle, and other covering liquid, flying dust tools, asphalt. Hehe, it's very troublesome. There is no special studio and there is no way to do it.

Lithography generally refers to slate, so I won't go into details. This is more troublesome than gravure.

The stencil is also called leaky stencil, which generally refers to Most of the patterns and characters are screen printed and also need to be carried out in the workshop. It needs screen frame photosensitive film (commonly known as film film), scraper printing machine or manual platform photosensitive stage, etc.

If you play by yourself, I suggest that woodblock prints are the most realistic. There is also the simplest blow-molded paperprints, which are printed with blow-molded paper as plates and gouache pigments in primary school printmaking courses, because it is simple and easy.