'Cambridge' Thermoplastic Printing Plate, 1960-1970

Made:: 1960-1970 in London

Examples of 'Cambridge' thermoplastic printing plates, patented by the Cambridge University Press in 1960

Details

Category:: Printing & Writing

Object Number:: 1973-243/32

Materials:: thermo plastic and plastic (unidentified)

Measurements:: overall: 5 mm x 170 mm x 110 mm, .04kg

type:: printing plate

credit:: London College of Printing

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'Cambridge' thermoplastic printing plate, 1960

'Cambridge' thermoplastic printing plate with 60 shore rubber backing, 2mm thick showing a page from the New English Bible. Patented by the Cambridge University Press in 1960

Object Number:: 1973-243/32/1

type:: printing plate

Purple printing plate with two identical images of buildings at the top and bottom of the plate (one marked 65 line screen and one marked 133 line screen) and text in between reading “‘London College of Printing’ This is one of the range of duplicate plates which is available for all forms of letterpress in printing monochrome and colour”