EXAMPLES OF PRINT TECNIQUES USED ON TODAY'S CERAMIC INDUSTRY AND ARTISTIC CERAMIC SURFACES

The main goal of the production of industrial ceramics is providing for human needs. Today's industrial organizations are different. They are open to innovation and use technology, such as, computers to create designs. The emergence of computers as a design tool has increased production speed and increased value to the objects produced. When we look at image printing techniques digital technology has replaced traditional methods. We can see the same thing taking place in ceramic art. Nowadays the computer is a tool we use when creating designs. Specially developed computer programs can be used to apply images to ceramic surfaces by the transfer printing method. Many methods are used in both industrial and artist fields to transfer images onto ceramic surfaces; silk screen printing method, inkjet printers, and copiers through image transfer, mono-printing, laser transfer techniques. Artists and the ceramic industry are using the same technologies to apply images to ceramics surfaces. The use of digital printing methods on artistic surfaces will be discussed in this article.