Mt. Fuji Print: Hokusai's Print, Part 8

In this demonstration, we have gone through the inking process and are now ready to use our registration paper.

Remember that your registration paper should be half the size of either an 8.5 x 11 or 9 x 12 piece of paper.
Also recall:
1. half of that paper is your registration paper
2. the other half of that paper is your final print paper

Place your registration paper down first. Then place your matrix on top. Consider as well cleaning your fingers before you touch your registration paper and your final print paper. If you have black ink on your fingers, they can easy smudge your registration paper as well as your final print paper. Technically if this was a printmaking class, you should not have any smudges whatsoever on your registration paper or your final image. You will lose points if you do.

Also make sure your registration paper is straight. That is incredibly important for a print. And as such, if you were taking a printmaking class, you would be docked points if your final image because of your registration paper, came out crooked.

Then once you have your registration paper straight, then carefully place your matrix on top of the paper, facing out. Do not have your matrix facing in, as your registration paper is not your final printing paper. Situate it carefully in the middle. You want it to be centered. If you need to use a ruler prior to know where to place your matrix so that it is centered, feel free to do so. If you want to trace your matrix on your registration paper so you know where it is centered, you can do that as well. But be careful not to smudge any ink on the registration paper while you use your pencil and go around the entire matrix.

Finally, you are now ready to place your final printing paper on top of the registration paper. Make sure sure that your registration paper matches exactly the width and the height of your final printing paper. It is important that they are the same.

If you think about this, because your final printing paper is going on top of your matrix, it will create a mirror image as a result.