Re: km73 plate with finer stochastic screen

[SusanV <susanvoss3@gmail.com>]

Jon,

Thanks for posting the intaglio!  Looks very nice for sure, and nobody
has the measles! :o)  I agree with Loris about the highlights of
course.  Can't you polish the tone out of those spots before printing?
Q-tips?  I sure have found that a thorough hardening of the plate
(through drying it for 15 minutes or so with forced-air heat of some
kind, and post-exposing for 3x the image exposure time), has really
hardened my plates.  Highlights polish nicely and plate tone can be
managed.

I have a new print of the radishes I'll try to post later today.

Susan

On 4/11/07, Jon Lybrook <jon@terabear.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here's a scan of an intaglio print I made today using the 1800 dpi
> stochastic screen, side-by-side with a scan of the original silver
> print.  This is using the 2nd iteration of the compensation curve I've
> been developing for my workflow with the 7800.  Not without room for
> improvement, but getting close!  No adjustments were made to the 16bit
> RGB scan of the intaglio print, other than converting it to jpg.
> Auto-adjust was turned off in the scanner settings.
>
> Please let me know what you think, and if you have any questions not
> already addressed in my on-line procedure.
>
> Comparison:  http://terrabear.com/procedures/comparison.html
>
> Procedure:  http://terrabear.com/procedures/polymer_photogravure.html
>
> Thanks!
> Jon
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