Lithography (from Greek "ίθος - lithos, 'stone' + γράφω - graphο, 'to write') is a method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface.
Lithography - plane surface printing method based upon the antipathy of oil and water. In offset lithography, the image is first picked up by a rubber blanket, which in its turn transfers the design to the paper.
Lithography - printing from a smooth surface on which the area that is not to be printed repels the ink. One form of lithography is direct lithography, in which printing occurs without the use of an intermediate roller or blanket.
Lithography. Flat surface printing with a design area that is ink-receptive. The area that is not to print is ink-repellant.
Margin. The selvage surrounding the stamps on a sheet.
Lithography (aka Offset Lithography)
A printing process that uses an offset method where the image is transferred to the paper by way of a rubber blanket (mat). Click here for more detailed information.
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Lithography - Flat surface printing with a design area that is ink-receptive. The area that is not to print is ink-repellant.
LKU - Latest Known Use.
Offset Lithography
The most common form of commercial printing. Its basic principle is that oil and water do not mix. A litho-printing plate has non-image areas that absorb water.
Lithography - a printing process in which the design is drawn, photographed, and transferred to the stone or plates of zinc or aluminum in a greasy ink. It is then fixed by treatment with acid.
Lithography has been used in conjunction with engraved frames in numerous instances.
Lithography is quite different. The stamp design is transferred to a stone or metal plate using a substance that repels the application of an acidic fluid, which lightly etches the plate where it is not protected by the substance.
Lithography is perhaps the toughest. These stamps usually are of the poorest printing quality. They often lack fine detail, being made up of lines of various lengths and thickness.
lithography (litho)
A common method of printing stamps and cachets in which the design is transferred from a smooth plate by selective inks which wet only the design portion of the printing plate. [Back to top]
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Offset lithography: printing process consists of transferring an image from an aluminum or zinc plate to a rubber blanket; the image is then transferred from the rubber blanket to the paper running through the machine.
Offset-lithography - Surface printing from cylinders. See lithography.
Og. - Abbreviation for 'orginal gum', i.e. bearing most of its original gum in undisturbed condition (but hinged at least once).
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.
has manufactured it using a combination of the lithography process and line engraving, or intaglio process.
Offset printing is an indirect flat printing technique that evolved from the lithography technique. The printing areas of the plaque attract oil and repel water, thereby taking in the colour.
We shall study the processes by which postage stamps are made, delve into the ancient and modern art of paper making, learn the art of steel engraving, the rudiments of lithography, ...
You simply couldn't get the same effect on bond or rag paper of the envelope that was obtained with lithography and other printing processes common to postcards.
Printing Process Lithography
Flexography
Issue Dates
The issue date given is the first day the stamps were valid for postage or the date they were on sale in a majority of Australian states, whichever is the latter.
Liner: Paper used as a backing for mint self-adhesive stamps.
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Lithography: A kind of printing process in which the stamp is printed with a ink receptive design region.
Locals: Stamps valid within a limited area.
The design of the Black Swan Stamp was by Horace Samson using lithography. A different frame was used for each value of the series of stamps. The 4 cent value is printed in blue.
The introduction of multicolor photogravure and lithography broadened the scope of definitive stamp designs during the postwar era.
Using the photographic image of an establishment, all undesirable features, such as telephone poles, junk yards, background clutter, and sometimes even cars and people were remove by airbrush. Lithography A printing process using a smooth, flat, ...
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