Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
*Engraving - a process by which a stamp's design is cut into a metal die. The design is then transferred to a transfer roll and then from the transfer roll to a printing plate.
Line engraving: Printing done from an intaglio plate produced from a hand-engraved die and transfer roll rather than by photographic or chemical means. See also Gravure.
Line-engraving
The process of steel or copper engraving in lines
Line perforation ...
Line Engraving - See "Intaglio."
Linerless - Self-adhesive coil stamps that dispenses like tape rolls.
Lithography - Flat surface printing with a design area that is ink-receptive. The area that is not to print is ink-repellant.
Engraving - a method whereby ink is carried in depressions below the surface of the plate, and from there transferred to the paper. Engraving is usually done by hand directly on wood or a steel die.
Engraving can be combined with other types of printing, but for United States stamps issued since about the late 1990s, the computer has taken over.
The Line Engraving Method
With this method, the portions of the stamp design that are meant to be white when printed are left raised, and the part of the design that is meant to be coloured is engraved out of the surface of the steel block.
Intaglio Line engraving; the art of engraving a design in reverse in soft steel.
Die: The original engraving of a stamp. A transfer roller is made from a die, and printing plates are made from the transfer roller. When more than one die is used in the production of an issue, distinctive varieties are often identifiable.
BEP - Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the US government department, founded in 1862, that produces all US currency and, from 1894 until 1979, all of its stamps.
Taille douce: (Fr.) copper plate used for line engraving.
Tai-ping: city in east China, local post, 1949.
Bluish Paper In 1909, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing experimented with paper containing 35 percent rag stock instead of all wood pulp.
Engraving - The art of cutting (postage stamp) designs on metal, wood etc..
Engraved - A method of printing in which the lines of the design are cut into metal, which are recessed to retain the ink.
United States Stamp Society (formerly the Bureau Issues Association)promotes the study of philatelic output of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (and other printers). Durland Standard Plate Number Catalog available.
The migration away from line engraving to lithography and photogravure techniques of manufacturing stamps did, however, do away with the need to use plate numbers, and plate blocks are now known, technically, as inscribed blocks.
And though many stamps look the same to the untrained eye, a small variation in perforation, paper, color or engraving can mean the difference between a .03 cent stamp and a $45.00 copy. ..." Other issues of 'worth': Stamp appraisals ...
A postage stamp is produced by any of a number of printing processes, the two most common methods being engraving and gravure.
Bureau Prints are precancels that are printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.
For the past 3 years we have only had one older laptop dedicated to do everything from daily operations, typing the palmares, assisting members, running reports, and engraving medals - just to name a few.
Typography is just the opposite of engraving. The ink is pressed into the paper, similar to a typewriter. With a 10 power magnifying glass you can see that the paper rises above the ink. The color seems below the surface of the paper.
Plates are made photographically and chemically, rather than by hand engraving a die and transferring it to a plate. The ink in this process rests in the design depressions. The surface of the printing plate is wiped clean.
Otherwise known as photographic lithography, photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate.
Paper (wove, laid, etc, and including watermarks)
Printing methods (engraving, typography, etc)
Gum
Separation (perforation, rouletting)
Overprints on existing stamps
Forensic philately, especially the identification of forgeries ...
deceptive means such as artificial toning and where unaccepted or unorthodox methods are employed. Also not qualifying as conservation is restoration where mechanical repairs are made such as filling holes, smoothing out scratches, and re-engraving ...
 See also: Stamp, Printing, Used, Cover, Plate
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