While the detail of an electrotype can be excellent, the edge will usually give it away. |
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Making electrotype plates, especially in a curved shape, is a costly process, but they produce the best quality print. |
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By this period, the more modern electrotype process was largely used for books, with stereotype used more frequently for newspapers. |
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All banknotes are protected by watermark and electrotype, which are created using special hand-made matrices. |
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Plates that are to be duplicated by electrotype or stereotype processes may require slightly greater depths, although normal etching ordinarily is sufficient to produce good duplicates. |
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In making electrotype plates, an impression is made of the typeform using a substance that is a conductor of electricity or can be made conductive by treating with black lead or dusting with a powdered metal such as silver. |
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The existence of highly accomplished electrotype replicas means that one must at times wonder whether what is in the spotlit vitrine is the real thing. |
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In fact, considering Harpers' reliance on electrotyping over stereotyping by the mid 1850s, the plates for Inez were probably electrotype, rather than stereotype. |
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Holmes Electrotype Foundry was torn down and replaced with the Centrum. |
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