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 surfaces (equipment)

Anotations

Scope note:

Plates or surfaces that hold marks or information necessary to produce an image or text on a substrate, producing a print or reproduceable multiple, traditionally by applying ink to the matrix before running through a press, but digital files may be considered a type of matrix as well when used in the 3D printing process, for example.