Intaglio is the form of printmaking in which the image is incised into the printing plate – the incised areas hold the ink which is transferred to dampened paper, under pressure, by rolling through a press. The plate will emboss into the paper so that you will see the tell-tale plate mark around the edges of the image and on the reverse of the print. Under the umbrella of intaglio, we find the techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint, mezzotint and collagraph. In our series of three articles,