Getting the Right Impression

These innovations are important but they do not address a fundamental question of diecutting? Platen or Rotary Technology?

Platen or Rotary Diecutting?

The earliest history in the printing process describes the adaptation of a wine press into a crude "press" where "paper" was compressed against an inked, hand carved relief tablet. From the beginning the printing process and subsequently the diecutting process were dominated by various forms of stamping mechanisms where the material being printed was sandwiched between a level tool and a flat Platine. In this application volume was less critical as a limited market was more interested in matching the quality of the hand scribed predecessor to the printed book.