Re: Photogravure question

Shannon, will you share your curve for photopolymer offlist? I am working
with solarplate at the moment and not quite there yet, curvewise.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: <sstoney@pdq.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Photogravure question

> I use photopolymer plates too. I have digital transparencies made by a
> pre-press guy. He uses Icefields to put a random stochastic screening in
> that makes the plate grab the ink. The most problematic thing was
> developing a curve to apply to the digitized image and convincing the
> pre-press guy to stop messing with the curve! Once you do that, it's
> country simple.
>
> --shannon
>
> >> I skipped copper and went to photopolymer right away, the only
> >> consistent problem was getting even blacks and detailed shadows. I
> >> couldn't get the ink to "grab" anything and would tend to wipe these
> >> areas too hard, escpecially if they were large. I learned my film
> >> positives were too contrasty (too dense in the shadows) and cut back
> >> my overall density, nothing darker than about an 80% black.
> >>
> >> also, it has been nearly five years since I inked a plate, but I still
> >> have plates, ink, and access to a press... I guess I'm officially
> >> still in the game.
> >>
> >> Describe your "failures," please.
> >>
> >> Darryl
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Nov 2 12:50:32 2003