>May I respectfully suggest that statements concerning methods such as
>polymer photogravure, for which no canonical rules have as yet been
>established, be qualified by something like: "To my knowledge ..." or "With
>such and such a procedure we found ...".
Willingly. I will rephrase to ' The prints that i have seen so far from photo
polymer plateds do not have the range or tone or subtlety that we have obtaoned
using aquatinted copper.'
> The reason for this wish is that
>after more than 1/2 year's concentrated work with polymer gravure I am now
>able to produce prints with very deep velvety blacks, and with a complete
>lack of graininess even under a loupe (except, of course, for that of the
>original negative).
I would love to see them. I have only seen prints made according to the 'Howerd'
method and some, I believe made by Ele ponsaing's method.
Surely if you can see no grain at all does this not imply that you were using no
kind of screen.
> Further, as opposed to gravure on aquatinted copper
>which - as I understand the process - yields only a limited number of grey
>shades, the polymer gravure produces as continuous an image as that of the
>original negative.
Not in my experience. In fact the only process that competes in tonal range
with gravure prints I have made is carbon.
Terry King