A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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hammer printing
A manual impression technique sometimes used to print woodcuts and particularly small format woodcuts. The inked wood block is placed face down on the sheet of paper to be impressed and is then hammered once with a sharp, hut not brutal, blow. This method of printing is in opposition to manual printing techniques which rely on rubbing with a frotton, a burnisher, or yet other instruments (printing presses).
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