How are prints made?
Most prints are made by scanning and making separations of the art. A separation is made by breaking down the image into (usually four but sometimes as much as 6-8) individual colors. It’s similar to how a television works-everything on TV is a blend of blue, red, yellow and black. Then, each of these separations is used to burn a printing plate. From there, the work is done on big commercial presses, and each print passes under each color plate, which gives a predetermined amount of each color, which combines to form the final image. As Owen’s art is black and white, it only needs a black separation-not one with all of the colors. However, depending on the piece, sometime two black separations are made so as to render the proper amount of ink so that it keeps the look of Owen’s original drawing. No, it’s not just a photocopy!
