Austria Post issued the first ceramic stamps

Recently, Austria Post issued the world's first ceramic stamps. The stamp belongs to "Austria classic brand" series of stamps, for promotion of Austria famous brand Augarten porcelain porcelain (Augarten Porcelain) and the issue of.
The issue of the ceramic stamps with a face value of 5.90 euros, with a classic "Vienna rose" modeling as a postage stamp patterns. Using the stamps are printed on "paper" -- in the Augarten porcelain ceramic factory in the high temperature of 960 Celsius firing 24 hours and subsequently glazed, and at higher temperature glaze firing hardening. The stamp is printed by screen printing technology, in order to ensure the stamp (or ceramic) color fastness and contrast, related color will be heated to 820 degrees Celsius. In the above ceramic stamps in the production process, in addition to the short period of time to mass production cannot be hand drawn patterns using screen printing technology, the rest are used in traditional Augarten porcelain manufacturing process.
MYEX Minya Express International
2014-04-03