Autotype, the original manufacturers, still make carbon tissue by the mile.
Rather like the Model T it comes in one colour, not black, but the colour
that the Victorians described as sanguine carbon which is rather the colour
of a renaissance drawing. It has the great advantage that, although it is
designed for use with gravure, it is excellent for the production of carbon
prints giving a range of tones from negatives up to a density range of 2.6.
I use it for both hand gravure and carbon printing
I have just bought a roll for my students on my alternative photography
workshops which include carbon printing.. The cost was one hundred and
forty pounds for a 2000cm by 85 cm roll. Autotype are happy to sell to
others for this size of roll.
Autotype will be at the Bath Symposium. If we can establish a market
sufficient to run the machines it is possible that Autotype could again
manufacture carbon tissue in the process colours . That is a big 'if'
and very much depends on the size of the demand. I remember when I first
bought Hanfstaengl tissue they sent me a list of their worldwide customers.
There were about twenty outside Germany. This rather explains why they
stopped manufacture. Autotype stopped making tissue in process colours some
years earlier. We all regret the demise of Hanfstaengle but , if, as
seems that there is increasing demand, not all is lost.
We should also remember that as Autotype manufacture to the highest
European and ISO standards their product is not likely to be inexpensive.
But it will be consistent.
Terry King