As facsimile (lat. make it similar!) designates one a original-faithful copy and/or reproduction of a collecting main, frequently a historically valuable document.

The term fax for a fax transmission is derived likewise from facsimile.

The term facsimile is used also as name for the electronic images by documents, which in document management, archives or Enterprise content management systems in scanned are.

A good facsimile corresponds to the collecting main usually in size and color.

Historical documents

If the original is too valuable, in order to be issued, or, offers a facsimile the possibility is lost of making a historically meaning document of the public accessible. The letterpress printings specialized in it aim at the maximally possible perfection degree, in order to make the facsimile as similar for the original as possible. Not only the use of old tool and techniques provides for as original-faithful a reproduction as possible, but also most modern Scan and photography method are used for it. Thus these books represent like at that time today an indication of the manufacturing arts of their time.

Postwertzeichen

In the Philatelie calls one imitations of rare stamps from private side facsimile. This imitation must deviate however from the original, since it would concern otherwise illegal falsifications. A simple back marking as facsimile is not sufficient for it. The deviation can with the used stamp paper, in which color, in the perforation or at the compression matter take place. A facsimile is therefore only the original similar a stamp.

If the production of facsimiles of stamps under national order takes place, one calls this reproduction. These are not manufactured with the original print. The Philatelist calls stamps, which are manufactured after their with the original prints or pressure plates, reprints.

Production

Preferential facsimile techniques are Holzstich, photolithography or photo-mechanical reproduction. By means of Retrodigitalisierung increasingly facsimiles in electronic form are provided.

Related links

• Skriptorium.at: World-wide overview of expenditures for facsimile of medieval handwriting
• Bibliography of faksimilierter handwriting

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