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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1483892, member: 19065&quot;]Just wanted to share this example of how wet paper intaglio printed notes appeared as they were laid out to dry in a B.E.P. printing operation, circa the era of notes this thread discussed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The sheets show dramatic distortion, curling and buckling, from moisture as it evaporates from the sheets. To render the uncut sheets flat again, before distributing notes ordered for circulation, the paper <u>needed to be pressed</u> once the inks had had time to dry on the sheets. Paper can be dampened again slightly <i>without</i> total submersion in baths of water, to allow the paper to &#039;relax&#039; and then controlled pressure applied so that the notes come out flat, or flatter, ready for packaging and shipping to their destination and introduction into circulation. The inks being oil based, once dried can withstand and resist the moisture when the paper is wetted again in this later stage. They are durable enough to resist breaking from the paper fiber when pressed, folded, creased or otherwise handled, but the embossed nature of engraved printed lines can be crushed if improperly flattened, as we know many notes later were mishandled. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]187911.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Date Created/Published: c1908.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Summary: </i>Photograph shows a man checking currency in a drying tray at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Underwood &amp; Underwood, photographer) via <a href="http://www.encore-editions.com/man-checking-drying-tray-at-u-s-bureau-of-engraving-and-printing/download" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.encore-editions.com/man-checking-drying-tray-at-u-s-bureau-of-engraving-and-printing/download" rel="nofollow">encore editions</a></p><p><a href="http://www.encore-editions.com/man-checking-drying-tray-at-u-s-bureau-of-engraving-and-printing/download" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.encore-editions.com/man-checking-drying-tray-at-u-s-bureau-of-engraving-and-printing/download" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p>There is <a href="http://www.encore-editions.com/search/bureau-of-engraving-and-printing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.encore-editions.com/search/bureau-of-engraving-and-printing" rel="nofollow">a set</a> of interesting images that this one comes from, check them out to see how operations then were running.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><font size="2">If the picture attached doesn&#039;t expand in scale on your display, you can&nbsp; see a slightly larger one at the encore editions link provided, though with a digital&nbsp; watermark. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><font size="2"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><font size="2">Note also that this image is in near-duplicate, because it was taken with a stereoscopic camera (think early 3D). Such cameras captured two images from lenses set side-by-side but at slightly different perspectives to capture the same scene at the same time from two vantage points, by which viewers then could viewing with an apparatus that enabled them to experience some degree of depth or dimensionality in the scene depicted.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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