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#PrintingProcesses: Photocopying

Printing Processes

In this new episode of our freshly startet series #PrintingProcesses, we take a closer look at photocopying, also known as xerography. This invention enabled the possibility to make copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quick and especially cheap. And even still today, in the era of digitalization, photocopiers are an indispensable part of everyday life.

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#PrintingProcesses: Screen printing

Printing Processes

After we took a closer look at gravure printing, one of the oldest printing processes still in use today, in this edition of #PrintingProcesses we take you into the world of screen printing. Historically, it’s considered the fourth printing process and is also called stencil printing. If you combine screen printing with suitable ink, you can print on almost any flat material, such as textiles, glass, ceramics, paper and even stone.

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#PrintingProcesses: Gravure Printing

Printing Processes

Let’s move on with our new series #PrintingProcesses and one of the oldest printing processes still in use today: gravure printing. As early as the Middle Ages, people produced copperplate engravings (a graphic gravure printing process) with an image depicted in the recesses. Since then, gravure printing has developed over a long time and is used today for banknotes, cosmetics packaging, magazines and many more.

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