Re: Carbon Printing

nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca
Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:12:09 +0300

>>
>> Are there any commercial sources for carbon tissue? Several years ago I was
>> in contact with a German company that made carbon tissues for typographic
>> purposes, but these were all transparent gelatin coatings. It seems to me
>> with all the interest, someone should be preparing a commercial product.
>> Does anyone have any information on this?
>>
>> Sil Horwitz, FPSA
>> Technical Editor, PSA Journal
>> silh@iag.net
>>
>>
>One could use the black tissue of the Ultrastable color printing

I doubt it. Systems designed to work with screened separations have
normally very thin coatings that cannot handle continuous tone negatives
very well. Plus the black would be very neutral.

To answer the question above, I don't think it would be feasible as the
market would like to have at least four or five different colors, plus a
tricolor set and the latter is not required since Ultrastable is already on
the market. It is better to learn how to make the stuff and then you have a
cheap source of supply and all the flexibility in the world.

Luis Nadeau
NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

>system I suppose. Otherwise, to my knowledge there are no
>commercial sources for monochrome tissue.
>
>Sandy King