 
 
    ISSUE 177 - September 5, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
    The Development of  Rotary Press Printing       
     by Max G. Johl. 
      (From The Stamp Specialist Book #1, published in 1939)
      
	   The Office Department has recently announced that in the  future most of the commemorative stamps would be printed  from rotary press plates, and in addition to that would be  printed on plates especially prepared for use on the electric eye  perforator. While this is the latest development, it can hardly  be said to be unexpected; for over thirty years the Bureau of  Engraving and Printing has been experimenting with methods  which would decrease  
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    The Office Department has recently announced that in the  future most of the commemorative stamps would be printed  from rotary press plates, and in addition to that would be  printed on plates especially prepared for use on the electric eye  perforator. While this is the latest development, it can hardly  be said to be unexpected; for over thirty years the Bureau of  Engraving and Printing has been experimenting with methods  which would decrease  
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