COP Lecture 5 : Print

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1. to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.

Prin·t

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2. to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a plate or block.

Prin·t

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3. to form a design or pattern upon, as by stamping with an engraved plate or block: to print calico.

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4. to cause (a manuscript, text, etc.) to be published in print.

“I love a ballad in print a life, for then we are sure they are true.” Shakespeare

If it is print then it is seen to be true.

It is correct. It is factual.

Although this isn't always the case, it used to be as it was such a costly process in the past, items printed were proof read and researched to a high standard. But these days it is not as costly and damages aren't as impeeding. So prints such as the daily mail can get away with printing unfactual information without proper sources. This can also be said about the effect of propaganda, the reason it was so influential during the war is because print before then had all been factual. 

Print's like this don't appeal to me as much as those for interiors such as William Morris.

The design and colours in these prints are just so intense and skilled they have inspired a whole period in art and still inspire designers today. Quality prints like this can change the world via interiors and to me make it for the better unlike propaganda.