Re: photogravures
Ben Blaze (blaze@astral.magic.ca)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:08:31 +0500
>On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Stefan Stecher wrote:
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>> Does anyone on the list know the english name (german: Lichtdruck) of the
>> professional/commercial/mechanical version of oil printing (printing from=
a
>> glass plate with a gelatin relief to make high quality prints)?
>>
>> Does anyone have experiences with this process or could give any informat=
ion
>> about the results compared to that of photogravures ?
>>
My three cents=8A
The other name is "Albertotype". I have been playing with this technique
several years ago (college), and had serious difficulties interpreting
instructions I could find in my source books. Finally, I talked to a
retired printer who used to work with the process, and he poined out are
some obscure details of the process, that may wreck havock with
unexperienced adept. (Such as the temperature of water and time of washing
the plates)
I have not seen "Kent Kirby's book "Studio Collotype" published by
Heliochrome Press.". Perhaps it covers this process better than the books I
had at the time.