Print Technology Part I: History and Types Test

Print Technology Part I: History and Types

Wilkes-barre Area Vocational-technical School
Teacher: Schoener (pschoener@wbactc.org)

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1. Which of the following is NOT a pre-print step included in the printing process?

2. True or False: Materials such as clay, wax, and parchment were used in the early days for printing.

3. Fill in the Blank: In 1906 the Eagle Printing Ink Company introduced the _______ process, based around the CMYK color set.

4. True or False: Before the invention of the printing press, writings and drawings had to be done by hand rather than using an image carrier.

5. Which of the following was the name of the special room within monastaries that were dedicated to the hand printing process before the invention of the press?

6. Fill in the blank: _____ also known as silk screening, is a stencil-based printing process in which ink is forced through a fine screen onto the paper beneath.

7. Fill in the blank: _____ sometimes referred to as planography, is the method of printing from a limestone or metal plate by using a method based on the chemical composition of oil and its ability to reject water.

8. Fill in the blank: _____ is the opposite of relief printing. It consists of ink filled recesses that produce an image where they are present instead of absent.

9. True or False: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 174,000 people are currently employed to set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, short-run offset printing presses, and other printing machines.

10. Fill in the blank: In a scriptorium, the scribe would measure and outline the page layouts. Afterwards, a person called a(n) _____ would add designs to the pages leading to a finished product.