What is the difference between a print and an orginal painting? how much more is the painting worth?

Robert Macgregor's "The Cutty Stark"|||A print is a copy of a painting, and there are many types of prints. A print that is just a poster isn't very valuable. A print that is signed properly by the artist is worth more. (The title, edition number, artist's signature and date need to be listed in pencil.) The original painting will be worth the most.





An artist I know sells her paintings for about $300, but her prints are only $30. They are a lot smaller and there are many copies, but prints are nice to own if you don't have the money for the original.|||A print is basically a photo of a picture or painting printed out by means of a copy machine or printer. An original painting is one that the artist painted themselves. you can easily tell the difference. One is paint on canvas, the other is a photograph of paint on canvas. Of course, the original painting is always worth more than just a print. I cannot tell you how much though. It depends on how old the painting is, and who painted it.|||Basically print is sometimes a misused or confused term. Originally, back then when no mass production machines making copies, a print means anything that's created by an artist who made use different methods to make images on a plate and then print how many copies from the plate. Generally, lithograph, etching, intaglio etching, relief, engraving, and etc.... are all printing methods. The printed images on paper are therefore called prints.





However, nowadays, you can call a copying machine's print out call a print too. A photograph is a print too, for anything that can be made more than once. Prints themselves are not created directly on papers but through a machine, plate, or some other kind of medium to transfer the image.





An original painting is painted directly on a piece of paper or a canvas, which by no means can be transferred or made more copies of it.|||A original by this artist can worth up to 15 000$US but for a print it doesn't worth anything at auction. there's not a lot of artist that prints worth something.