Re: Newbie introduction
Hi Susan, The plates are, as you mention, polymergravure plates, but only a few are Solarplate. The majority of the prints are from Toyobo Printight plates. Dan Welden gave a workshop at APIS many years ago in Santa Fe and that was the main reason I started with the Solarplates. However, I found that the Printight plates gave better resolution and tonality than the Solarplates, at least for the work I was printing for Cy at the time. The Printights are more expensive and much harder to cut, which can result in slightly rounded edges and therefore uneven contact between the film and plate. Otherwise, the processing is identical. You can order Solarplates directly through Dan Welden www.solarplate.com or the Printight plates (KM73R) through Anderson and Vreeland www.andersonvreeland.com. Keith. Keith Taylor www.keithtaylorphoto.com The first gravures I saw were by Cy Decosse at John Stevens gallery in NY. They just took my breath away. I've since learned that he has his work printed by Keith Taylor, and that they in fact, ARE solar plates instead of traditional copper plate gravures. If I can get that level of detail and richness... that's the benchmark for me.
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