Lenticular Printing

レンチキュラー印刷 / 1940s– / Technique / Print Expression

Lenticular printing interlaces multiple images into thin alternating strips and aligns them with parallel lenses so one print flips, animates or gains depth as the viewing angle changes.

Lenticular Printing — Lenticular flip card, Arbeiter Samariter Bund / Bunt — preview of a photographed physical print; animated original at source — Raimond Spekking — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
Lenticular flip card, Arbeiter Samariter Bund / Bunt — preview of a photographed physical print; animated original at source — Raimond Spekking — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lenticular Printing — AI-generated interpretation 1
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Lenticular Printing — AI-generated interpretation 2
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At a glance

Visual cues

  • Two or more images switching with viewing angle
  • Source frames interlaced into narrow vertical strips
  • A surface of parallel cylindrical lenses
  • Depth or motion built from binocular offsets or sequential frames

Best used for

  • Making exhibit signs, posters or packaging change along a visitor's path
  • Putting brief movement or depth into a print without power

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Dictionary entry

Type
Keep type on the same baseline in every frame and avoid strokes too fine for the lens direction.
Composition
Set viewing position and movement first; use two frames for a flip or matched sequential frames for motion.
Material
Interlace to the lens pitch and align the printed strips and lenticular sheet without drift.
Caution
Layered stripes do not make a lenticular. Image pitch, lens pitch, direction and registration must agree before the views separate.
Further study
Image interlacing / Lenticule pitch and viewing angle / Flip, animation and stereoscopic depth

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