Gravure - a printing process utilizing cylinders (a separate one for each color) upon which the design has been recessed in dots by photographic and chemical means. The web is printed directly from these cylinders.
Gravure: A printing process utilizing an intaglio printing plate created by photographic and chemical means, rather than by hand engraving. See also Intaglio.
Gravure - See "Photogravure."
Grill - A pattern of parallel lines (or dots at the points where lines would cross) forming a grid.
Guillotine Perforation - Single cut-line from a machine resembling a guillotine.
Gravure: The process of creating an intaglio printing plate by photographic and chemical means, rather than by hand engraving. See also Intaglio.
Photogravure - modern stamp-printing process consisting of photographing the artist's finished drawing on to process film and printing down on to sensitised carbon tissue which is transferred to a copper plate (or cylinder), and etched.
Photogravure: A modern stamp-printing process that is a form of intaglio printing. Plates are made photographically and chemically, rather than by hand engraving a die and transferring it to a plate.
Photogravure
Otherwise known as photographic lithography, photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate.
Photogravure. Modern printing process where stamps are printed through the photographic plate making process and through the use of chemicals.
Gravure is a process in which small cells or holes are etched into a copper cylinder which is filled with ink.
Flexography is a relief system in which a raised image is created on a typically polymer based plate.
Gravure printing is characteristically used for long run, high quality printing producing a sharp, fine image.
Photogravure - a printing process in which a design is photographed on the printing plate through a fine screen.
Heliogravure and photogravure are actually the same operation. The process, as the second term would imply, calls for the making of a photoengraved plate for printing in which there are no sharply cut lines, but rather faint, ...
Similigravure: (Fr.) half-tine (engraving).
Simili-timbre: (Fr.) bogus.
Simmons, Dr. M. A.: U.S. private die medicine proprietary stamp.
Simoor: Indian States; 1879-1902 ...
- Abbreviation for photogravure
Photogravure - A form of recess printing using photo-etching.
Piece - Portion of a cover front or other postal item containing not only the adhesive(s) but also the complete cancellation.
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.
He might catch it in a newsreel at the movie house or see a still in the rotogravure, or travel to the library to browse through the national geographic, but that was about it as far as connectedness to the outside world went.
Stamp Printing - Part 2
Stamp Printing - Part 3
Embossing
Offset Stamp Printing
Photogravure And Rotogravure
Preparation Of The Steel Plate
Printing From A Line-Engraved Steel Plate
The Wonderful Giori Press ...
Cylinder Numbers Numbers in the margins of stamps printed by photogravure from rotary cylinders. A separate number appears for each different color used in multi-colored stamps.
RETURN TO HOMEPAGE ...
The introduction of multicolor photogravure and lithography broadened the scope of definitive stamp designs during the postwar era.
Inscription: The letters, words and numbers that are part of a postage stamp design. Les Gravures Officielles Intaglio (France): Specially engraved 'proofs' of French stamps using the same process employed to make currency and banknotes.
2¢ Navajo Necklace, pane of 100, 2006 year date, gravure, die cut gauge 11¼ by 11½
12/08/05
3749B ...
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