platemaker

platemaker

(ˈpleɪtˌmeɪkə)
n
1. (Ceramics) ceramics someone who makes plates
2. (Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) armour someone who makes plate armour
3. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing someone who makes plates for printing or engraving
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Andrew Shaw, 39, started a company called The Platemaker from an address on Sunny Road, Southport, in 2011 to sell car license plates over the internet.
old platen press, a NuArc platemaker (the old fashioned method), a Robertson vertical camera, a light table, a 30" papercutter, a hole punch (weight 1/2 ton), a folder, and a drafting table." (84) The ICWP had acquired the equipment through the proceeds from the poetry collection and with a donation from Robin Morgan, who gave the ICWP her fifteen-hundred-dollar honorarium for speaking at the University of Iowa.
(10) Trissel designed the book with the computer and printed it through plates produced by the photopolymer platemaker.
The Brunswick City Council funded the purchase of an offset press and a platemaker, and it began operating at 'Shopfront 380' in Sydney Road, Brunswick, in November 1979.
David Willcock, executive producer for Spire Films, which is making the series on behalf of Channel 4, said: "Being a lancemaker was about as rewarding as being a platemaker for a Greek wedding.
Self-contained high-end (more than 100,000ドル) production systems, which originate at an editor's terminal and terminate at an image setter and film recorder or platemaker, typically are difficult to cost-justify, either from an equipment or human resources standpoint.
Powers fixes Hoover's early character in the values of turn-of-the-century Washington, a small town in which blue-collar families like that of Dickerson Hoover--a government platemaker, son of a government printer--looked to the federal bureaucracy cracy as an oasis of prestige and respectability.
Two centerpieces at the Anderson & Vreeland booth are the Flint Xpress Thermal Plate Processor and the Xeikon ThermoflexX platemaker. Anderson & Vreeland provides one-stop shopping for nearly all flexo and digital printing needs.
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