> I've been itching to try something new lately, and thought.. hey.. why
> not photogravure or some other godawfully tedious process! I got out
snipsnip
well, why not try the new photo-polymer gravyre? it is 1000 times easier
than old copper-plate gravure, and uses a non-toxic chemical named aqua
(although nowadays water could be regarded as not too healthy, couldn't it
;-) The procedure is simple - make a positive film, contact-print it with
the polymer-base and then contact print a raster film - the finer the
raster, the less dots you'll get in the final print, which is printed the
same way than copper plates (in a press). The process is fairly new, but
it si being researched here in Finland at the University of Industial
Arts, on the photography department, and there is a book on it (in
Finnish). If you need more details + material sources info I could try to
look them up for you, I took the course last spring, and it was easy, and
you could use the plate up to 1000 times (compared to 5-6 in
old-fashioned gravure) not to mention that the prints looked just about
the same or better than copper-gravures. Has anyone else tried this method?
tomi knuutila tomknuu@silmu.cc.jyu.fi may the force be with you
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