On Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 7:19:46 PM UTC-4, Cursitor Doom wrote:


Intaglio requires very heavy pressures of around 80T/square inch
generated by *very* heavy machinery; much, much heavier than litho or
letterpress which are like balsa toys by comparison. Then you have to
have the right plates. Engraving those plates to an acceptable standard
requires very *considerable* expertise by people who can command pay
grades that elevate them *way* above every other 'manual' worker into a
league of their own.

It does when printing on paper. However, not when printing on solid materials such as glass bottles as a primary example. That requires a fast-cure (usually heat), high-tack ink, and quite light pressure given the speeds involved. Consider the typical direct-printed beer-bottle.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA