• AQUATINT
• BAT
• BURIN
• DIGITAL PRINT
• DRYPOINT
• E.A. OR A.E.
• EDITION
• ENGRAVING
• ETCHING
• HORS COMMERCE (HC)
• IMPRESSION
• INTAGLIO
• LINOLEUM CUT( LINOCUT)
• LITHOGRAPH
• MATRIX
• MEZZOTINT
• MONOTYPE
• MULTIPLE
• OFFSET LITHOGRAPH
• ORIGINAL PRINT
• PHOTOGRAVURE
• PROOF
• PUBLISHER
• REGISTRATION
• RELIEF PRINTING
• SCREENPRINT (SERIGRAPH, SILKSCREEN)
• SOFT GROUND
• STATE
• STENCIL
• TUSCHE
• WOOD ENGRAVING
• WOODCUT

Wood engraving

Wood engraving is a relief printing technique, where the end grain of wood is used as a medium for engraving, thus differing from the older technique of woodcut, where the softer side grain is used. The technique developed at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, with the works of Thomas Bewick generally made his engraving in harder woods than normally used, and would engrave the end of a block instead of the side. Finding a knife not suitable for working against the grain in harder woods, Bewick used the engraving tool the burin, which has a V-shaped cutting tip. Engraving on wood in this manner produced highly detailed images, usually quite unlike those produced by engraving on copper plates. Furthermore, unlike copper-plate engravings, thousands of copies could be printed from engraved wood blocks. Since wood engraving is a relief process, they could be used on conventional print presses.