From: Eric S. Theise (mataro@cyberwerks.com)
Date: 11/12/01-04:18:56 PM Z
H. C. writes:
> If you want to purchase one and
> use it, don't let me tell you not to. Just remember that great printing
> can be done without one.
Where I learned to make photogravures, they have a chart. And so you can
find the densest part of your positive on a densitometer, look it up in
the chart, expose your gelatin tissue according to that chart, and get
good results. Or you can use your judgement and do something different.
Where I am printing now, and where I will be teaching workshops next year,
they have no information at all, and the equipment is very different.
So you can, as I have done, work for an entire day and end up with nothing
but a lot of gelatin washed down the drain and a ruined but costly sheet
of copper.
I believe that I, and the people who come after me, will benefit from
this equipment being callibrated to some sort of quantitative and
reproducable standard.
As it turns out, I did not get the one on eBay. It eventually went to
$73, which seemed like too much for such an old piece of equipment.
--Eric
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