Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:10:12 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Walt Goettman wrote:
>
> This effect is typically a duotone where a second black plate of a
> different black is used. The second plate usually has a lower
> contrast. Note Lee Friedlanders "Nudes" were tri-tone and Richard
> Benson has been using five and six colors but this is not cmyk.
OK, I'm going to stick my neck out which may draw some better information
from the woodwork. From what I understand about the kind of printing done
for a mass magazine like Time or Newsweek (granted, my understanding of
the process on a sliding scale of 1 to 100 would be about 12) is that it
would be very unlikely to do a duotone as part of its press run, which
would mean stopping the presses & changing ink... and as there are usually
about 6 or 8 pages to a plate, at least in the type of printing I'm
familiar with, that would further complicate matters.
Sometimes you see an insert which is probably printed by the advertiser
and bound with the rest of the pages, but a duotone on the press run?????
I've never noticed any I could identify as such in a mass magazine... The
Lee Friedlander & company repros you cite are in art books... where
duotone or tritone might be used for all or sometimes a part of the whole.
For instance the Drtikol catalog I have says plates x through z were
tritones, the rest duotones ... but I doubt Time magazine !
Anybody here from Time? Luis?
cheery Judy
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