Artist's proof - Prints outside the standard edition which are intended for the artist's own private collection and use. Generally the first printings of the image, the artists uses these to determine quality and embellishment. This is designated in at the bottom of a print as AP.

Digital art - Artwork created on a computer, without any traditional media original. Print- outs of digital art are therefor not reproductions but can be thought of as multiple originals.

Digital reproduction - A Reproduction of a physical original piece of art using digital technology.

Documentation - Information available on the edition of a print telling the artist's name, the printer's name, the location of the workshop, the number of prints in the edition, date, etc.

Edition - The total number of prints made of a specific image and issued together from a publisher.

Embellished- A print that has original hand work added on top of the reproduced image. Generally includes hand-coloring, texturing or enhancing the printed image. An embellished print can be thought of as a combination of print and hand painting creating a unique work of art. Sometimes prints are embellished by someone other that the artist. All of Mike McKenney's embellished prints are embellished by the artist himself.

Giclée - An image printed on a industrial ink-jet printer. (The term literally means "spurt " or "spray.") Special inks produce incredibly true colors without the dot pattern associated with offset lithography. With advances in technology, the giclée has continued to evolve, and has become an accepted printing method. The quality of the inks used to print, and the substrate on which the image is printed, affect the quality and longevity of the print. A giclée can be either original art (when the image is created originally in the computer) or a reproduction (when an image is scanned into a computer, then printed.)

Limited edition - This term refers to the number of identical prints that are available. A limited edition refers to the fact that the print is one of a number of images in a published edition for which a predetermined limit is set. Once the predetermined number of prints are made, no more are made, assuring that the edition is "limited."

Open edition - Open editions are prints that are published with no restrictions as to the number of copies that will be made. This is designated in at the bottom of a print as OE.

Original digital print - A print out of digital art that has no physical original. The original only exists in digital form. Therefore each print can be thought of as a multiple original.

Signed and numbered - At the bottom of each print in an edition, the artist puts his signature and numbers the print. The numbering appears as one number over another, for example, 10/100. This indicates that this was the 10th print to be created and that there were 100 prints in all.

States - (first state, second state, etc.) - changes or corrections made by the artist which alter the printed image. Each time the image is changed, it is said to be in a "state."

Unique - In art, this term is applied to original artwork. All original, one-of-a-kind pieces are unique works.