intaglio cylinder

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• intaglio — /in tal yoh, tahl /; It. /een tah lyaw/, n., pl. intaglios, It. intagli / tah lyee/, v. n. 1. incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief. 2. ornamentation with a figure or design sunk below the surface. 3. a gem, seal, piece of jewelry, or… …   Universalium

• cylinder seal — a small carved cylinder used esp. by the ancient Mesopotamians to impress a design in wet clay. [1885 90] * * * Small stone cylinder engraved in intaglio on its surface to leave impressions when rolled on wet clay. It first appeared с 3400–2900… …   Universalium

• cylinder seal — noun Date: 1887 a cylinder (as of stone) engraved in intaglio and used especially in ancient Mesopotamia to roll an impression on wet clay …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cylinder seal — noun : a cylinder of stone or other hard material engraved in intaglio upon the curved surface and used especially in ancient Mesopotamia to roll an identifying impression on wet clay (as in sealing a jar or writing tablet) …   Useful english dictionary

• Intaglio printing cylinder — Формный цилиндр (глубокой печати) …   Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

• printing — /prin ting/, n. 1. the art, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc. 2. the act of a person or thing that prints. 3. words, symbols, etc., in printed form. 4. printed material. 5.… …   Universalium

• photoengraving — /foh toh en gray ving/, n. 1. a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing. 2. a plate so produced. 3. a print made from it. [1870 75; PHOTO + ENGRAVING] * * * Any of several processes for producing printing plates …   Universalium

• printmaking — /print may king/, n. the art or technique of making prints, esp. as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy. [1925 30; PRINT + MAKING] * * * Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but… …   Universalium

• History of printing — The history of printing began as an attempt to make easier and reduce the cost of reproducing multiple copies of documents, fabrics, wall papers and so on. Printing streamlined the process of communication, and contributed to the development of… …   Wikipedia

• gravure printing — Printing processes used for catalogs, magazines, newspaper supplements, cartons, floor and wall coverings, textiles, and plastics. The Bohemian Karel Klíč made photogravure a practical commercial process in 1878. An image is etched in the copper… …   Universalium

• offset printing — Lithog. offset (def. 6). * * * or offset lithography or litho offset In commercial printing, a widely used technique in which the inked image on a printing plate is imprinted on a rubber cylinder and then transferred (offset) to paper or other… …   Universalium