Re: Newbie introduction
Hi Keith,
I'm not sure where you were getting Solarplates before and at what cost,
but KM73 plates are actually much less expensive, if you buy them
through Box Car Press. They're code-named 'EcoEtch gravure plates for
photogravure' on their website.
Please see:
http://boxcarpress.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=polymer.htm
Scroll to the bottom.
They get them wholesale from Anderson and Vreeland and sell them for
much less than Anderson and Vreeland does directly, last time I
checked. You can order large A2 plates in quantity from Box Car and get
an even larger discount. Check it out.
Best wishes,
Jon
taylordow wrote:
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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