Re: Artigue and Fresson Printing

S. Carl King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Fri, 09 Jan 1998 14:01:22 -0400

>Was this a monochrome or color paper? I am interested to know (or to guess
>anyway) whether the multilayer is only for tone control or whether they have
>found a way of coating separate color layers and then expose and process all 4
>colors at the same time. That would have been pretty advanced in their time,
>wouldn't it?

Dave,

The analyis was of a piece of monochorme paper, nuetral black. I don't
believe the Fressons were doing color work in the 40s and 50s.

As I recall, Luis covers the coating/development operation of color
Fressons in one of his book.

Sandy