Re[2]: Collotype:Was Dichromated gelatin
NADO000 (LNADEAU@unb.ca)
Wed, 05 Oct 94 21:23:04 -0300
>> I'm happy to see that there is at least one person here practicing the
>> collotype process. How active are you?
>
>Not for 20 years.
>
>> Do you print your own work only
>> or do you print for others?
>
>Actually, my interest in collotype plates was as a source of a random
>dot halftone screen. Most of my experiments were in the realm of dying
>the gelatin to produce specific contrast screens. I pretty much started
>with a screen that duplicated the contrast of the Kodak magenta
>halftone screen and then modified the dyes in the gelatin to fit the
>requirements of the process I was using for the final print.
>
>>
>> How many other collotypists do we have on this list?
>
>I do know someone who is working with collotypes in Arizona. As I
>recall he got a grant in the last year or two to produce a portfolio