Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [equipment for printing and printmaking]
9. printing surface preparation equipment
10. printing surface preparation tools

Anotations

Scope note:

Small wheels used to indent or perforate surfaces such as paper, pottery, or metal plates for printmaking. Use if this term encompasses tools with revolving heads of hardened steel on which a dotted, lined, or irregular pattern is incised; used in intaglio processes, especially mezzotint, and other objects such as short lengths of fiber or wood rolled into wet clay to create decorative motifs.