A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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injection
An old term for Spatter work used by Aloys Senefelder in his book on the Art of Lithography. In this book he speaks of such work as being "rapid in execution and giving good resultst" as well as being suitable for a variety of purposes. To bring about the "injection" (it would have been more precise to call it "projection") all that was needed was to rub a little brush with a knife so as to spatter the chemical ink onto the lithographic stone. In order for the spattering to be both fine and even one had to remove the excess ink from the brush otherwise there was a danger of creating large spots. In connection with this spatter work one or more stencils were used to stop out certain areas and to prepare the various areas for colour use when the work was done on several stones.
[airbrush, lithoqraphy].
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