LETTERPRESS PRINTING
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Raised letters or images pick up ink from a roller and transfer it to the paper. It is a relief-printing process used first by Gutenberg in 1455. Oldest method of commercial printing. Contrast to intaglio process. Also refer to offset printing.
By Henry Campbell Black
