RE: Digital Negatives and Linotronic film output?

[Mac Legrandi <juicebox@my-deja.com>]

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>Mac:
>Could you give us a synopsis of your process?
>Thanks
>Jack Fulton


1). Buy a Solarplate (solarplate.com, Daniel Smith etc) about $14 for a 7x10"

2) Make an enlarged POSITIVE transparancy

3) Buy or make an 80% grey (Aquatint) Stocastic screen

4) Expose your plate with the Aquatint screen for half your exposure time. Use a UV light or the sun.

5) Expose you Postive film for the rest of the exposure.

6) Rinse in tap water, lightly scrubbing with a brush. until all unexposed photopolymer is gone..

7) expose the dried plate to the sun to set the plate.

8) Ink with etching ink. Clean off excess ink with Tarlatin (cloth)

9) Put in press or use hand barren.

10) You now have your first Photogravure.

By the book "Printmaking in the Sun" for all the details.

You can experiment with photogravure for very little investment and time.

You could even just output you photo on a linotronic with a Stocastic screen and not have to do the double exposure technique. Linotroni output is as little as $8-10 for an 8x10.

Good Luck!

Mac





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