Re: Carbon Printing
Stefan Stecher (sstecher@linux1.rz.htw-kempten.de)
Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:59:42 +0100 (MET)
> > 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?
>
> Gallery 614 sells rolls of commercially made tissue for around $300 per
> roll. You can contact them at:
>
> Gallery 614
> Dr. Robert Green
> 219-281-2752
>
> What they have is a stock of tissue originally made by a german company
> which as I understand it is no longer in business, or at least no longer
> making the tissue. They are sold out of brown and black monochrome
> tissue. All that is left are something like green, blue, rust red, and
> tricolor tissue. I think they have looked into making tissue
> commercially, but the equipment for coating large batches of paper is
> expensive. I would also guess that the market isn't that big either.
The company was Franz Hanfstaengl of Munich/Germany but they stopped
manufacture years ago.
Be carefull, this tissues could cause fog problems when not be stored under
certain condition.
Stefan