why is monoprinting called monoprinting?? and what is the difference of monoprinting to silk-screen printing..

Answer 1

Monoprinting can only produce one print. A good example of this is if you "paint" on a piece of glass with printing ink and then put a piece of paper on the glass and send it through the press, you will only yield ONE print. You can monoprint with any material (linoleum, wood, intaglio, etc.) BUT YOU MUST ONLY make one print. It would be considered more "valuable" if there is only one. (A big debate...value and printmaking)

Screen printing simply put is creating a stencil on a screen allowing ink to be pushed through the screen only in the areas where the stencil is open. A screen print or silkscreen can be duplicated over and over and over.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Mono does indeed mean "one", but monoprinting is a mean of producing a single print. You can make a monoprint with any amount of colour, but only one print.

If you used a silk screen, you could make any number of prints from it. Therefore, it is not a monoprint.

Answer 3

Mono printing just uses one type of color and ink type. It is called mono because mono stands for one. (I think it's latin.)