The studio includes facilities for etching/intaglio printing as well as digital printing onto substrates such as gessoed panel, glass, leather, plexiglas, aluminum, or raw linen.
The opacifier layers enable the inks of the offset and intaglio printing to adhere to the substrate.
A stiff, oily intaglio printing ink is applied to the whole surface of the plate with a rubber brayer, or a small, stiff squeegee, or a rolled tamper.
This allows a flat print plate to be used, enabling much longer and more detailed print runs than the older physical methods of printing (e.g., intaglio printing, letterpress printing).
There is intaglio printing through the bill which gives it an embossed feel.
Traditionally, anti-counterfeiting measures involved including fine detail with raised intaglio printing on bills which allows non-experts to easily spot forgeries.
The new design employs offset printing in favor of the intaglio printing used in the 2005 series.
However high-pressure web intaglio printing, front and back of the intaglio process, was a totally new idea.
