While woodblock printing, in which paint is applied on printing blocks through a silk sieve, has a soft taste, printing (print-type dyeing) with dyes with models gives a somewhat cold impression from it's hard, sharp, and clear patterns, but because it enables combining patterns together, many makers adopted a casing type of multicolored printing in which usually three or four model papers were used.
木版に絹篩（ふるい）を通して絵具を移して摺る木版摺りは、やわらかい風合いがあるが型染めの捺染では、硬く鋭い鮮明な紋様がやや冷たい感じとなるが、型合わせができるため、多くは三枚から四枚の型紙を用いて染める多色摺りの追っかけ型を用いた。