Embossing

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Old muffle box lid with embossing

The relief printing or relief printing is a variant of etching in which the printing plate in contrast to the normal gravure also large increases, having recesses, openings or soldered material, when printing in relief in the material to be printed, z themselves. B. thick handmade paper, so that it is printed and embossed at the same time (with color) .

If, on the other hand, a relief print is only embossed, i.e. printed without color, it is referred to as blind printing , blind embossing or embossing , and the printing process itself is also called embossing .

literature

  • Wolfgang Autenrieth: New and old techniques of etching and fine printing processes - An alchemistic workshop book for erasers: From 'witch's meal and dragon's blood' to the photopolymer layer. Tips, tricks, instructions and recipes from five centuries , Krauchenwies 2010, 230 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-035619-3 , ( table of contents , → excerpts online )
  • Walter Hess: The paper embossing technology. Practical manual for all paper embossing technology ... Berlin: M. Krayn 1923.

Web links

Commons : Embossing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. S. Jakucewicz, F.-J. Koensler, M. Szwemin: A postage stamp is created. Publisher: Phil * Creativ, Schwalmtal 1999, ISBN 3-932198-29-8