Facsimile

The facsimile (Latin fac simile "make it like "; plural: facsimiles) is a true copy or reproduction of an original, often in the case of historically valuable documents. Previously mainly printing processes such as the anastatic pressure and today especially photographic method were used. A good facsimile corresponds to the original in size, color and condition. Handcrafted be Faksilie in intaglio printing process, how to work wood engraving. The technically complex patterns without light pressure gives the best results.

The term facsimile will also be used to refer to the electronic images of documents that have been scanned into document management, archive or enterprise content management systems. The term fax for a fax transmission is also derived by facsimile.

An illustration of the pure text in not true to the original layout is known, however, as a reprint.

Historical Documents

If the original is too precious to be exhibited or lost, the facsimile provides the ability to make accessible historically important public document and research. The specialized book printers strive for the maximum possible degree of perfection to make a facsimile of the original as closely as possible. Not only the use of old tools and techniques ensures a replica of the original as possible, but also cutting-edge scanning and photo technique is used for this. So these books provide, then as now a sign of the manufacturing arts of their time dar. you are usually volumes of commentary added with explanations.

Postwertzeichen

In philately refers to imitations of rare stamps from the private sector as a facsimile. However, this imitation must differ from the original, since it would otherwise involve illegal counterfeits. A simple rear marking as facsimile pages is not sufficient. The deviation can take place at the used stamp paper, in color, in the perforation or the printing process. A facsimile of the original is only similar stamp.

Find the production of facsimiles of stamps under state contract instead, this is called emphatically. These are not made with the artwork stick. Stamps that are produced according to their Frankaturgültigkeit with the original printing blocks or plates, called the philatelist as reprints.

Production

Preferred facsimile techniques are wood engraving, light pressure and photo- mechanical reprint. With retro-digitization are increasingly created facsimiles in electronic form. The granolithography gives particularly good results.