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VERTICAL STOP-CYLINDER MACHINE [1 record]

Record 1 1998-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
DEF

A flatbed cylinder press whose bed is not in a horizontal but in a vertical position. The bed moves up and down, but its movement is in the opposing direction of the cylinder's. The bed and cylinder are counter-balanced one with the other.

OBS

The best known press of this kind is the Miehle Vertical.

Key term(s)
  • vertical stop cylinder press

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
DEF

Marbre et cylindre se déplacent verticalement en sens inverse l'un de l'autre. Le cylindre ne tourne que pendant son mouvement de bas en haut tandis que se fait l'impression.

OBS

La plus répandue des machines à plat est la Miehle verticale.

Spanish

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