An intaglio printing press includes, an intaglio plate cylinder, inking units,
each having an ink supplying pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate
cylinder, and each ink supplying pattern roller having different supply patterned
portions, an ink removing unit which removes surplus ink of the ink supplied to
the intaglio plate cylinder, an ink recycling unit provided upstream of the ink
removing unit with respect to a rotation direction of the intaglio plate cylinder
and downstream of the inking unit, and adapted to remove ink before the ink is
removed by the ink removing unit and return the removed ink to the inking unit.
The ink recycling unit includes precedence ink removing means which includes a
pre-wiping pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder for removing
the ink from the intaglio plate cylinder, and ink returning means which returns
the removed ink to the inking unit.