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    Mechanical Printing involves three main processes: Letterpress printing uses movable type that is inked and pressed onto paper to leave an impression. It was commonly used from its 15th century invention until the 19th century. Gravure printing engraves an image onto a copper cylinder using an intaglio process. It is used for high-speed commercial printing of magazines, packaging, and flooring. Screen printing uses a woven mesh screen with an attached stencil to transfer ink in sharp-edged images onto substrates. It is also known as silkscreen printing.

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    Mechanical Printing involves three main processes: Letterpress printing uses movable type that is inked and pressed onto paper to leave an impression. It was commonly used from its 15th century invention until the 19th century. Gravure printing engraves an image onto a copper cylinder using an intaglio process. It is used for high-speed commercial printing of magazines, packaging, and flooring. Screen printing uses a woven mesh screen with an attached stencil to transfer ink in sharp-edged images onto substrates. It is also known as silkscreen printing.

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    Mechanical Printing involves three main processes: Letterpress printing uses movable type that is inked and pressed onto paper to leave an impression. It was commonly used from its 15th century invention until the 19th century. Gravure printing engraves an image onto a copper cylinder using an intaglio process. It is used for high-speed commercial printing of magazines, packaging, and flooring. Screen printing uses a woven mesh screen with an attached stencil to transfer ink in sharp-edged images onto substrates. It is also known as silkscreen printing.

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    Mechanical Printing

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    Mechanical Printing involves three main processes: Letterpress printing uses movable type that is inked and pressed onto paper to leave an impression. It was commonly used from its 15th century invention until the 19th century. Gravure printing engraves an image onto a copper cylinder using an intaglio process. It is used for high-speed commercial printing of magazines, packaging, and flooring. Screen printing uses a woven mesh screen with an attached stencil to transfer ink in sharp-edged images onto substrates. It is also known as silkscreen printing.

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    Mechanical Printing

    Drew Wickenden
    Letter press.
    • Letterpress printing is a term for therelief printing of text and image using a
    press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a
    reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to
    obtain a positive right-reading image. It was the normal form of printing text
    from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century until the
    19th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the
    second half of the 20th century. In addition to the direct impression of inked
    movable type onto paper or another receptive surface, the term Letterpress
    can also refer to the direct impression of inked printmaking blocks such as
    photo-etched zinc "cuts" (plates), linoleum blocks, wood engravings, etc.,
    using such a press. citation needed]In the 21st century, commercial
    Letterpress has been revived by the use of 'water-wash' photopolymer plates
    which are adhered to a near-type-high base to produce a relief printing
    surface typically from digitally-rendered art and typography.
    Gravure
    • Diagram of rotogravure process Rotogravure (roto or gravure for short)
    is a type of intaglio printing process, that is, it involves engraving the
    image onto an image carrier. In gravure printing, the image is engraved
    onto a copper cylinder because, like offset and flexography, it uses a
    rotary printing press. The vast majority of gravure presses print on rolls
    (also known as webs) of paper, rather than sheets of paper. (Sheetfed
    gravure is a small, specialty market.) Rotary gravure presses are the
    fastest and widest presses in operation, printing everything from narrow
    labels to 12 feet (4 m)-wide rolls of vinyl flooring. Additional operations
    may be in-line with a gravure press, such as saddle stitching facilities for
    magazine/brochure work. Once a staple of newspaper photo features,
    the rotogravure process is still used for commercial printing of
    magazines, postcards, and corrugated (cardboard) product packaging.
    Screen Printing
    • Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven
    mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil
    forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged
    image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across
    the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of
    the woven mesh in the open areas.Screen printing is also a
    stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed
    on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas
    coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced
    through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known
    as Screen Printing, silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.

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