Re: Polymer Photogravure blarchive
Oops. I thought that was off-list. Cryptic enough? > Thanks! I think that may be all I need to at least give it a shot. It > looks like the DR of the KM73 plate is 11 steps, or 11*.15=1.65. That > sounds consistent with what I was doing last summer in a traditional > copper gravure workshop I took with Jon Goodman. In that workshop, we > aimed for interpositives with highlights at 0.5 and shadows at 2.0 for a > nice complete full range etch. Do you like having some 'tooth' in your > highlights? That is one of the advantages we are finding for this > particular approach: you can easily create a curve that puts some ink and > texture even in the thinner areas of the inkjet transparency. > >> Just came across this archive of info on someone's website who was >> studying Polymer Photogravure. It appears to be something of a combined >> blog and archive, hence, blarchive. Didn't really examine the core >> website too much, but this doc seems to be a nice smattering of people's >> experiences with the KM73 plates, Solarplates, etc. >> >> http://www.lillil.com/pdf%20files/lillil_polymer&photogravure.pdf >> >> > > >
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