Stamp printing
Stamp printing refers to processes in which a raised printing form (see letterpress ) is pressed onto the printing material. In contrast to letterpress printing, the printing form is pressed onto the printing material and not vice versa.
Stamping is not an industrial printing process, but is used for stamps (wooden stamps, self-inking stamps, pagination stamps ). On an industrial scale, printing units (e.g. admission tickets) are numbered by means of connected pagination stamps.
A stamp can be made of different materials: hard rubber , metal , potatoes , cardboard or linoleum .
The origins of stamping are in Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age . There seals were used to sign clay tablets or to identify the owner of goods.
Crete was in 1908 the Phaistos Disk unearthed. With an age of approx. 3700 years, this contains the oldest text that was written using stamps for individual characters .
A well-known example from the Middle Ages is the Prüfingen consecration inscription from 1119 in Regensburg. The medieval letter tiles were also produced by stamp printing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert E. Brekle (2005): “Theprüfungingen consecrated inscription from 1119. A paleographic-typographical investigation” [short summary], Scriptorium Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Regensburg, ISBN 3-937527-06-0