Mar 3, 2015 07:56
9 yrs ago
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French term

plaque porte-cliché

French to English Tech/Engineering Printing & Publishing
Manual for gold foil printing machine. I reproduce the spelling as is, although I suspect it should be plaque porte-cliché, pl. plaques porte-cliché.

The problem is that, in a printing context, the most common translation for cliché is "plate". But googling "plate-holding plate", "plate-bearing plate", etc. led nowhere. The expression itself "plaque porte-clichés" (avec guillemets) gets precisely 2 hits.

"Mise en place des plaques portes clichés"

"Deux systèmes de fixation des clichés existent. En fonction de la plaque porte-cliché on mettra :
Soit des « Lardons », si la plaque support du motif (appelé aussi « cliché ») a ses bords fraisés (la fraisure doit respecter un angle de 75°, plus de détails sur le plan joint à ce document)."

"Une fois la plaque porte-cliché préparée, vous pourrez la positionner dans la presse."

"La plaque porte-cliché étant installée et fixée, on installera la plaque de mise. Celle-ci vient se positionner en dessous, dans sa glissière, comme ceci :"

"Le réglage latéral (décalage dans la largeur de la bande de papier) se fait grâce à la molette de réglage grise sur le devant de la plaque porte cliché. "

"Blocage en position de la plaque porte cliché."

Proposed translations

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block-holding plate

See the reference below, describing a flexographic printing machine.
On figure 1, the component labelled 12 is called block-holding roller.
In French: rouleaux porte-cliché
Note from asker:
thanks... yes, "block" was what I was thinking... useful ref
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plate holding frame

Pls see link below for additional context:
https://www.google.pt/?gws_rd=ssl#q="plate holding frame" pr...


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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-03-03 10:44:53 GMT)
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In the sense of "template"? Plate holding template?
Note from asker:
thanks... not sure about "frame" for "plaque", though...
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