Symbols for techniques used in printed ex-libris
Code |
Annotations |
Intaglio techniques (original) |
|
C |
Intaglio printing (blank); embossing (Chalcographia) |
C1 |
Steel engraving |
C2 |
Burin (graven or gouge) engraving, notably on copper |
C3 |
Echting |
C4 |
Drypoint |
C5 |
Aquatint |
C6 |
Soft-ground or other ground-based echting |
C7 |
Mezzotint |
C8 |
Intaglio engraving on linoleum, plastic & other materilas |
Intaglio techniques (reproductive) |
|
P3 |
Heliogravure (manual line and tone photogravure), Photogalvanography |
P4 |
Commercial photogravure, rotogravure |
P10 |
Echted steel printing (die-printing) |
Relief techniques (original) |
|
X |
Relief printing (blank) |
X1 |
Woodcut |
X2 |
Woodcut engraving |
X3 |
Linocut |
X4 |
Relief-printed engraving or echted metal plates, notably metal cut |
X5 |
Relief-printed metal plates created for intaglio printing |
X6 |
Relief-printed engraving of other materials, for example synthetic ones |
X7 |
(chinese) stone stamp |
Relief techniques (reproductive) |
|
T |
Typography, letterpress |
T1 |
Linotype, indirect letterpress |
T2 |
Photoxylography, facsimile wood engraving |
T3 |
Commercial rubber stamp |
P1 |
Line block (cliché) with or without photography |
P2 |
Half-tone, for example photozincography |
Flatbed, stencil, electronic techniques (original) |
|
L1 |
Autolythography |
L2 |
Autography (transfer lithography) |
L3 |
Zincography |
L4 |
Algraphy |
P8 |
Original photograph, hologram |
S |
Stencil, "pochoir" |
S1 |
Original serigraphy (screenprinting) |
S2 |
Mimeography (dye stencil) |
S3 |
Katazome (oiled-paper stencil) |
S4 |
Kappa (Katazome made with persimmon juice) |
CGD |
Computer generated desing |
Flatbed, stencil, electronic techniques (reproductive) |
|
P |
Photographic reproduction |
P5 |
Collotype |
P6 |
Photolitography, process transfer lithography |
P7 |
Offset |
P9 |
Serigraphic reproduction (photosilkscreen) |
CRD |
Computer reproduced design |
Y |
Photocopy |
Others symbols |
|
U |
Technique not listed above, including Frottage, Chinese rubbing and collography |
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Number after the technical symbols = number of passages throuth the press |
/mon. |
Monotype |
/ col. |
Hand-coloured |