What does "printmaking" mean?

The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transfer of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.

Printmaking

Common synonyms include: albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype.

noun

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Noun

1
The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transfer of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper. uncountable
2
artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens wordnet

From print + making.

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