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August 22, 2013 20:37

Hello,

Does anyone know which magazine these printing plates come from? Album = Bijoux Castafiore, year = 1965. Searched for quite a long time ...

http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/overig/fabrikanten-uitgevers/casterman/3994185-drukplaat-kuifje- les-bijoux-de-la-castafiore

Curious!

Thanks

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August 23, 2013 08:56

I suspect this is a printing plate for a newspaper, where the story was published in two strips a day ..... but which one?

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August 23, 2013 12:09

The date does indeed reveal that it is a newspaper publication. There are no dimensions, but it must have been only part of the newspaper page (I think the quarter at the top left).

By the way, it is not a printing plate, but a test print in a kind of soft cardboard, to check the quality of the metal plate. Making a print with ink was quite laborious, such a pressed proof (I don't know what it was called, although there must have been a term for it) was faster and the cliché remained clean.

Complete "Printing plates" were seldom used in letterpress printing, only in the gravure process (including illustrated magazines) and offset (which only came into wide use around the 1970s). An entire newspaper page was composed of these kinds of clichés (for the illustrations) and lead type (for the text), all in mirror image.

In the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek has digitized a large number of newspapers, but I do not know of any comparable initiative in France (or Belgium) and it will therefore be difficult to find out which newspaper this comes from.

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August 23, 2013 17:10
My compliments for the above explanation
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August 23, 2013 22:25

Such a cardboard 'plate' is called a styp. It is not a test print, as Boekenmagazijn describes so beautifully. It is no problem at all to make a print with ink, and with a rag you can wipe a printing plate (cliche) clean again.

Styps were made for two reasons. For one thing, cliches were expensive because of the material (usually lead) they were made of. After use, it was too inconvenient and expensive to keep (they were melted down), so things that were expected to be needed were made into cardboard styp. A new clichee could be made of this by pressing in lead under pressure.

One two reason is actually the logical consequence of the above. It was much too cumbersome and expensive to send a cliche to other publishers / newspapers, so styles were sent.

How easy it is nowadays with scans and e-mails. mail ...

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August 23, 2013 23:04

Thanks for the rectification. Then it was misinterpreted to me (years ago), but I am always happy to be able to learn something new.

And if you know the correct name, it also turns out to be much easier to find more information about it on the internet.

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August 24, 2013 12:14

Thank you. Good explanation. Thanks also for the adjustment.

I have searched further for the magazine but found nothing. The logo and cover used are more or less identical to those of Echo Illustre, but they already told the story in 1963

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