Line engraving

Line engraving - printing done from an intaglio plate produced from a hand-engraved die and transfer roller rather than by photographic or chemical means.
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Line Engraving - see Engraving.
Line Gaps - the gap between plates printing precancels that appears on coil stamps at regular intervals.
Line Pair - see Joint Line and Guide Line.

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.

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.

In intaglio (line engraving), the image is hand-engraved as lines on a die and is transferred to a plate. Figure 2 shows the 1¢ New Netherland stamp in the Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary issue, Scott 614.

Intaglio Line engraving; the art of engraving a design in reverse in soft steel.

Taille douce: (Fr.) copper plate used for line engraving.
Tai-ping: city in east China, local post, 1949.

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.

Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving.

Other stamps are made of synthetic chemicals, silver foil, and paper. Paper stamps have been produced in a variety of techniques such as lithography, line engraving, photogravure, intaglio and web offset printing.

See also: Stamp, Printing, Engraving, Plate, Used