Printmaking is actually a method for making a masterwork in ink; the work called a print is made indirectly, via the transfer of ink from the surface area upon which the work was initially drawn or composed. Conducting this printmaking could be achieved in the following techniques. The most used are the woodcut, etching, lithography, as well as screen-printing. Other printmaking methods include chine-coll, collography, monotyping, engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, linocut, aquatint as well as batik. These methods could also be merged.

Printmaking is an art form consisting of producing imagery, often on paper but at times on fabric, parchment, plastic, or any other support, by various methods of multiplication, under the steer guidance of or by the hand of the artist. Such fine prints are considered original artworks, although they can appear in several copies. The key methods are relief printing, in which the background is cut away, leaving a raised graphic; intaglio printing, in which the image is incised directly into the plate; surface printing like lithography, where the picture is painted or drawn right onto a natural stone; as well as stencil printing, where the pattern will be eliminated and printed by spraying paint or ink through the stencil.

Bill Fick is a printmaker residing as well as doing work in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He acquired his B.A. from Duke University and his M.F.A. from University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Presently, Fick is the director of Cockeyed Press, that focuses on the production of satirical linocut prints.

Monotyping is a type of printmaking created by sketching or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface area, or matrix, was traditionally a copper etching plate, but in modern work it could range from zinc or glass up to acrylic glass. The image is then moved right onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two with each other, typically using a printing-press. Monotypes could likewise be created by inking an entire surface and after that, using brushes or rags, getting rid of ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. making lights right from a field of opaque color. The inks utilized might be oil-based or water-based. With oil-based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, whereby the image has a 10 percent greater range of shades.