Rolling is considered to result in plane strain deformation under certain conditions. The texture which results from rolling has been modelled under the assumption of plane strain deformation and also with some relaxation of constraints imposed by the plane strain criterion. The texture which results from the heavy cold rolling of copper and aluminum is very pronounced and generally results in the cube texture on annealing. In this paper a comparison between the textures of copper cold rolled and cold deformed by plane strain compression were examined. Of particular interest in the present study is to see whether there is any difference in the formation of cube texture on recrystallization of the specimens deformed by these two methods. Such an investigation has not been reported in the past. The deformation textures of copper channel die (plane strain) deformed to levels of 80%, 90% and 95% were found to be very similar to that of cold-rolled copper. At reductions of 80% and 90%, the channel-die-deformed copper also produced a stronger cube texture on recrystalization than did the rolled copper. However, at 95% reduction the reverse appeared to be the case. The intensity of the texture due to twins of the cube grains was found to increase slightly compared with the dramatic increase in cube intensity with increasing cold reduction for both rolled and channel-die-deformed specimens.