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111Crown Agents Philatelic and Security Printing Archive — Original artwork for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1971 1c stamp Cutting Toddy . Part of the Crown Agents Philatelic archive.[1] The Crown Agents Philatelic and Security Printing Archive was deposited with the British Museum (later becoming the… …
112offset printing — method of printing in which a printing plate first receives ink and then transfers the ink to the paper (rather than applying ink directly to the paper) …
113collotype printing — noun a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors • Syn: ↑collotype, ↑photogelatin process • Hypernyms: ↑planographic printing,… …
114Gold plate — Gold Gold (g[=o]ld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G. gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul[thorn], Russ. & OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. [root]49, 234. See {Yellow}, and cf. {Gild}, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Chem.) A… …
115Hair plate — Hair Hair (h[^a]r), n. [OE. her, heer, h[ae]r, AS. h[=ae]r; akin to OFries. h[=e]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[=a]r, Dan. haar, Sw. h[*a]r; cf. Lith. kasa.] 1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming… …
116Index plate — Index In dex, n.; pl. E. {Indexes}, L. {Indices}(?). [L.: cf. F. index. See {Indicate}, {Diction}.] [1913 Webster] 1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses; as, the increasing unemployment rate is an index of …
117deep-etch plate — /deep ech / an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic. Cf. albumen plate. * * * …
118key plate — Print. (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered. [1905 10] * * * …
119deep-etch plate — /deep ech / an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic. Cf. albumen plate …
120Stripping (printing) — Stripping is a dying trade in which film negatives are arranged in a pattern, which will create a series of pages. There is an individual negative for each color to be printed on a printing press. Colors are arranged in order to fit together with …
