How to distinguish between hand-painted and printed blue and white porcelain

The blue and white for high-temperature underglaze color, blue and white decoration is painted directly with cobalt material on plain porcelain tires, and then covered with a transparent glaze, fired at high temperatures, decoration is sunk in the transparent glaze underneath the hand feel smooth and flat. Printing is also a decorative technique of ceramics, that is, to carve out the pattern of the mold printed on the body is not dry, Ding Kiln porcelain, Yuan Dynasty Pivot House ceramics are more often used in this decorative method, generally due to the mold printing of the first few prints of the number of different and lead to different degrees of clarity of the decorations, the first mold is clearer, the second mode, the third mode, the more the pattern of the latter the shallower, the more fuzzy, the general prints with the hand to touch it will feel bumpy. Hand-painted and printed these two ceramic decorative techniques are very different, generally not easy to confuse.