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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 309466, member: 56"]It's my understanding that photogravure prints come off rotary presses (it's a mass market intaglio process). As such, they don't have plate marks, but it's an easy thing to add a mark after the fact (or before, I suppose). It's just a simple bit of embossing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I could be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes, what appears to be a plate mark will, on closer inspection, look like a wire was impressed into the paper. If you see that... it's not a true plate mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had intaglio prints that were pulled on tissue, the tissue then laid inside the plate mark impressed on a heavier piece of paper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 309466, member: 56"]It's my understanding that photogravure prints come off rotary presses (it's a mass market intaglio process). As such, they don't have plate marks, but it's an easy thing to add a mark after the fact (or before, I suppose). It's just a simple bit of embossing. Of course, I could be wrong. Sometimes, what appears to be a plate mark will, on closer inspection, look like a wire was impressed into the paper. If you see that... it's not a true plate mark. I have had intaglio prints that were pulled on tissue, the tissue then laid inside the plate mark impressed on a heavier piece of paper.[/QUOTE]
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