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Essential vocabulary

Words and Word Combinations

  1. relief

  2. raised printing elements

  3. highly viscous

  4. pasty

  5. rigid

  6. antimony

  7. platen press

  8. clam-shell

  9. flat bed

  10. screw

  11. lever

  12. uneven impression

  13. rotary

  14. inline operations

  15. collate

  16. bind

  17. belt

  18. signature

  19. adhesive

  20. wash-off

  21. photopolymer

  22. makeready

Activities

1. Find words and word combinations of the essential vocabulary in the text and translate the sentences they are used in into Russian.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. What is letterpress printing?

2. What ink is used in letterpress?

3. For how many years was letterpress the predominant printing technology?

4. What kinds of presses were chronically developed in letterpress?

5. Are there any differences between them?

6. Can you give the main characteristic to each of them? Do it.

7. Is letterpress still used nowadays?

8. What is printed by means of letterpress technology?

9. What year were the last letterpress machines delivered?

10. Describe the process of making the wash-off printing plate?

11. What are the fundamental disadvantages of letterpress printing?

12. Describe the process of letterpress printing.

3. Agree or disagree with the following:

1. Letterpress is the oldest printing technology.

2. Printing is done by means of recessed printing elements.

3. A relatively high pressure is required to transfer the highly viscous, pasty ink to the paper via the hard printing elements.

4. Flatbed presses are the oldest type and were used for small printing jobs.

5. In sheetfed presses a continuous roll of paper is fed between two cylinders.

6. The belt presses are used for continuous inline operations.

7. Letterpress is not used nowadays.

8. Few newspaper rotaries are used both for direct and indirect printing.

9. The last newspaper letterpress printing presses were delivered in 1990s.

10. There are no disadvantages of letterpress printing.

4. Match the two halves of the phrases:

1) mechanical a) impression

2) relief b) press

3) platen c) tickets

4) uneven d) technology

5) lottery e) operation

6) wash-off f) pass

7) inline g) printing

8) one h) trend

9) indirect i) printing

10) downward j) plate

5. Translate the result expressions and use them in the sentences of your own.

6. Fill in the gaps with the expressions of the essential vocabulary:

  1. Letterpress is -------- printing in which the printing areas are on the plane surface and the non-printing areas are below the surface.

  2. Printing is done by means of ------ printing elements.

  3. The letterpress printing plates were made from alloy of ----, ---, and --------.

  4. The letterpress ink is required to be ------ ------- and -----.

  5. ----- presses are the oldest type of machines used for letterpress.

  6. ------- presses feature a cylinder with attached paper, that rolls over the bed of inked type.

  7. In ------ --- presses a continuous roll of paper is fed between the plate cylinder and the impression cylinder.

  8. The ---- press is used for continuous inline operations.

  9. The most prevalent printing plate is the ------- printing plate.

  10. The design of sheetfed flatbed presses overcome the problem of ------ ---------- on the paper surface.