These plates are in deep relief and thus produce a heavily embossed print.
A highlight of his donation is an embossed print of a meticulously executed pen-and-ink portrait of Palmer constructed entirely of words no larger than a tenth of an inch high.
"Our Injustice, Vietnam", an embossed print with metallic paint on paper, described as a "stark political statement" in The New York Times, is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Anish Kapoor's blood-red sculpted mountains contrast with the minimalist aesthetic of Turner prize-nominated Langlands and Bell, whose Zen-like embossed prints depict floor plans of great mosques.
At his studio, Hu Zhengyan experimented with various forms of woodblock printing, creating multi-coloured prints and developing embossed printed designs.
"We have only one printing machine here and we have been running it non-stop to make sure that these books are done," says Sister Catherine as she explains how her small team of four volunteers has worked through the cumbersome process of translating, embossing, printing, proofreading and then binding the books.
When magnetic sound became popular, the oxide strips were embossed after printing.
One of the most gifted experimental printmakers of the 20th century, Nesch developed the method called metal graphic, which he used to make extremely intricate, heavily embossed colour prints.
'Just 28p for a gold-plated, four-colour print, embossed key fob,' exclaimed Gerald.
Aluminum foil may be coloured, printed, embossed, bonded to other materials, or coated with a plastic film.
The paper -- imported from the Phillipines, Thailand, Italy, Japan, India and Cambodia, among other places -- might be silk-screened, embossed, batiked or printed.
