printing plate

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printing
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.tɪŋ/us
/ˈprɪn.t̬ɪŋ/
the activity or business of producing writing or images on paper or other material with ...
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plate
noun
uk
/pleɪt/us
/pleɪt/
a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve ...
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(Definition ofprintingandplatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of theprintingplate(or printing cylinder) using an anilox roll.
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In the offset lithography process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a stat camera to create a same-size film negative for eachprintingplaterequired.
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A lithographic (litho for short) press uses principles of lithography to apply ink to aprintingplate, as explained previously.
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During the printing of stamps for booklets, the pages of stamps are usually printed in multiples from a largerprintingplate.
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Despite this, the term "camera-ready" continues to be used to signify that a document is ready to be made into aprintingplate.
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This film is then placed onto aprintingplate, on the plate burner.
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Since a single coin is used to make multiple counterfeits it is analogous to a "stereotype" or "clich"printingplate.
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Tape, magnets, tension straps and/or ratchets hold theprintingplateagainst the cylinder. 5.
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The plate cylinder holds theprintingplate, which is soft flexible rubber-like material.
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The three digits state sequential printing plates. 001, for example, would be the firstprintingplatecreated by the printer.
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They function as a transfer vehicle, picking up ink from theprintingplate, and transferring it to the part (substrate).
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The pattern is created on theprintingplateeither in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process.
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Methods were soon devised for differentially etching the image grains and the ground so that the daguerreotype could be used as aprintingplate.
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Copper is used as theprintingplatein etching, engraving and other forms of intaglio (printmaking) printmaking.
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This is because the artist could now draw directly on theprintingplateitself.
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The second method used a computer-guided laser to etch the image onto theprintingplate.
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The print mode used for the 1:25,000 pages was initially intaglio, and from 1905 aprintingplate.
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It transferred the image of the stamp from the master die to theprintingplate.
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The assembled forme is ready to be moulded and cast into a curvedprintingplate.
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In printing, a clich was aprintingplatecast from movable type.
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