carbon-pigment

Flesch Balint (arche@elender.hu)
Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:51:29 +0200 (MET DST)

Let me some fuss: the carbon (tissue, process, etc.) originally was the name of an early version which used carbon powder as a paint in the gelatine. The pigment (paper, process) is working by (mainly) watercolours.

The everyday language is not scientific but full with customs. So, both name are meaning the both processes.

A better trick if the same name can mean a few basicly different processes. Eg. the chromotypia is a special finishing/painting process for photographs from the 1860-s, and a +++

NO CARRIER