From: Bob and Carla (bb333@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/10/02-01:17:20 PM Z
Yes Sandy,
The name is Black Box Collotype, and they did donate everything to
ASU under the direction of James Hajicek, who I believe is the photo
department head there...Black Box Collotype still operates here in
Chicago dedicated to photo-offset lithography via Creo's Stochastic
technology. I was contracted to supervise the installation of that
system for them.
Robert
Sandy King wrote:
>
> I imagine you have access to Keepers of Light somewhere around
> Houston, or maybe even in Tennessee. You will find there a short
> introduction to the collotype.
>
> Collotype printing was, along with photogravure very prized in past
> decades for making top quality editions of photographic work. You can
> actually get slightly better detail from a collotype than from a
> photogravure print, though the Dmax of the photogravure is
> potentially superior.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any commercial collotype printing around
> anymore? I know that Black Box in Chicago, which was once the premier
> collotype press in this country, stopped making them quite a long
> time back and donated two very large collotype presses to a
> university in Arizona, Arizona State I believe.
>
> Sandy
>
> >shannon stoney writes:
> >> What is a collotype in the alt-photo-process context? I thought it
> >> was a kind of relief print where you glue things onto board or paper
> >> to make a plate for inking.
> >
> >That's collograph.
> >
> >Collotype was a mass reproduction medium in the early part of the last
> >century; many postcards where printed that way. As to familiar images,
> >many of Muybridge's studies where printed as collotypes.
> >
> >Fast forward to more modern times, Richard Hamilton used collotype in
> >combination with screen printing for a number of his prints in te 1980s.
> >
> >It is an ink-on-paper method, but unlike photogravure which is an
> >etching/intaglio method, collotype is a planographic technique like
> >lithography and is usually printed on a litho press.
> >
> >I haven't done it. I want to.
> >
> >--Eric
>
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