Do you by any chance have the unlimited Soup Can poster from POW? That's a litho. Also good quality, but just not screen prints Lithos have very waxy/poster-ish finish. I'm pretty sure those are not technical terms... perhaps someone else can explain it much better than I can

Litho & offset litho are totally different. The £9.99 soup can poster is an offset litho.

full breakdown below c/o the ebay forum...

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Etching: The surface of the metal plate is coated with an acid-resistant varnish. The artist then creates an image by using a fine point (like a tattoo needle) to expose parts of the plate under the varnish. When the plate is dipped in acid, these exposed areas are dissolved. In printing, ink gathers in the recessed areas and produces an image in reverse when pressed against dampened paper. Example Lucian Freud Eli etching (google it) NEEDS ARTISTS INVOLVEMENT

Lithograph: Artist draws onto a lithographic stone (bavarian kind of sandy stone) with a waxy pencil (not a pencil but similar). The stone is then dampened. Ink is applied to the stone but repelled by the water. It only stays on the waxy outline. The paper is pressed onto this forming the image. (see Micallef eyestorm stylie)
Can be done on a kind of transfer paper now as well. NEEDS ARTISTS INVOLVEMENT

Offset Lithograph: confusing - not to be confusing with lithograph as above. Offset is a complex form of digital printing. A transparency is made of a painting and then a high quality reproduction is made on paper. Complex digital process but with NEEDS NO ARTISTS INVOLVEMENT

Screenprint - like making stencils. Ink is pushed through stencils onto paper, differetn stencil for each colour. Used to be a hands on approach. When modern screenprints are made they usually work from a digital transparency of an original painting. (see banksy)

Giglee - the least interesting of these mediums - like a big inkjet - very mechanical (pixels show under a magnifying glass)(dirty deluxe)

There are others woodcuts, Monoprints, Aquatint etc but unless someone needs then I can't be arsed tonight.

Important thing to remember as a rule. Original prints are prints which are not copies of an original painting. Original prints only exist in print forma nd they have the most artist involvement. The only discrency to this rule is screenprints and they confuse everything. Screenprints are considered original prints even when made from a trancparency of an original painting (like Bankys) and dont we take advantage!!

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this is a cut&paste - all spelling & grammatical errors to be taken into consideration

essentially - everything printed on the cheap is offset litho. that & screenprints require no Artist involvement, hence why Signed screenprints go for so much more - the Artist has actually touched the piece albeit with a pen/pencil, etc - unless the Artist actually pulled the screens themselves.

By way of example, Artists supply hi-res digital files to the printers who then make screens from those files & hand pull the prints...
The Artist [if they aren't there pulling or overseeing generally] comes in to sign the ones that need signing.

giclée rules, its the one process that lets me get me work onto a canvas and framed.

Thanks Kal967 & InTheFogOfDesign ;D

I didnt have a clue what they all were

i've had a few done for between £25-35 (not with postage), it really depends on the quality of stock you end up printing on, have friends in who have luckily helped me out!

hopefully get some bits and bobs up soon if anyone whats to see my wears.

In French gicler means to spray or to squirt so giclée is just a bastardisation of this word based on the fact that inkjet printers spray/squirt ink. Inkjet printing wouldn't sound nearly as sophisticated.

so you're saying it's French for Bukakke?

Excellent news Kal!

yeah I did buy it from the pic on the website

I can't wait for it to arrive now! Ive seen some of his other ones and own his POW ones but was just a little perturbed by the Litho comments on the Eyestorm site.

Im starting to love his stuff more & more at the mo.

Love that minotaur piece... lovely aint it!

Hi mate, I've gone for the Happy fucked up nuclear girl... looks ace! A friend had one for a year or so and it grew on me so I just had to buy it in the end.

I really want the B&W Tokyo Girl too... I think that will be my next one.

Problem is I also want the Walk in Harajuku too.... too much money!!

Pictures On Walls also have a Micallef section. They are all gone at the moment but I hear that they will be having a new print sometime before New Year!

Wahoo!

I spoke to Lazarides gallery about the Micallef "Girl in Red"(?) print. They said they were waiting for everything to die down a bit after the show. Apparently the print is an edition of only 32 prints. I should imagine they will be quite pricey.
Anyone else have any news about the new POW Micallef print? I spoke to Eyestorm, they are down to single figures on the "Shibuya Crossing" print but have held back the 1-10 editions on most of their Micallef prints. These will then be released to people on their mailing list in the new year at 3-4 times the current price. Eyestorm seem have a very open information policy from what I can gather. Shame not everyone is as open with their info!

I've been working in the printing business for over 20 years (mainly in the pre press reprographic side) and although an artist could use the traditional method of photographing the original through colour filters it really wouldn't be very good,(think of the colour cookery books etc of the 1950's) and the kit needed (a gallery camera) is almost extinct. I've never heard of an artist operating a print press, although he could guide the printer this will only make the image overall more/less cyan,magenta, or yellow (giving the impression it's more/less green, blue, red).
Although lithographic prints can be good quality for reproduction of say, watercolours and photographs, they really fall down in other areas of art as the ink can't be applied as thickly as screen printing. Also hand pulled screen prints are more 'crafted' as it needs someone to physically push a pile of ink by hand across the screen with a squeegee as opposed to the printing press which once set up knocks out thousands automatically. You can also print onto much better quality paper (hand made if required, deckled edge etc).
I'd never buy a litho print, to me they seem worthless, only as valuable as anything else that could be printed onto the same piece of paper, afterall it costs no more to print art than it does a sheet of postcards, so in my opinion an A2 peice of art on card should be the same price as 16 postcards.
Also you could never do very low print runs (anything below 100) economically, litho comes into it's own for mass printing, really needs to be over 500, infact you can get a run of 1000 for hardly any extra cost to printing 500.