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 - see gravure.
Photogravure and Color Company - private printer of the 1967 5¢ Thomas Eakins Commemorative, Scott 1335.
PhotoStamps - Personalized postage produced by Stamps.com.
Photogravure. Modern printing process where stamps are printed through the photographic plate making process and through the use of chemicals.
Photogravure - A special type of recessed printing involving designs being etched onto plates.
Pictorial - Stamp bearing a picture, but not a coat or arms or portrait.
Plate - The unit on a press used to produce stamps.
Photogravure: A modern stamp-printing process. Plates are made photographically and chemically, rather than by hand engraving a die and transferring it to a plate. Photogravure is a form of intaglio printing.
Photogravure - a printing process in which a design is photographed on the printing plate through a fine screen.
Photogravure is generally used for multi-colored stamps and utilizes four basic ink colors: magenta, yellow, cyan and black. A separate plate, which had previously been prepared by photographically separating the colors, is required for each color.
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, ...
Rastertiedruck: (Ger.) offset printing method, photogravure.
Rate: the amount of money charged for a postal service.
Rate change cover: cover posted on the first day of a new postage rate.
Rated: term used by U.S.
- 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.
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.
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The introduction of multicolor photogravure and lithography broadened the scope of definitive stamp designs during the postwar era.
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
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becomes visible and as it does not contain water the fluid may be used on mint stamps without damaging the gum. A drop of benzine can also be used to coax the watermark out of the paper but care should be observed as the inks of photogravure stamps ...
 See also: Stamp, Plate, Gravure, Printing, Sheet
  
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