Digital BW, The Print

Easter Bonnet and you can keep your chump change!
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From: "p5198" <rbollini@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] RE: Photogravure and Inkjet


> A mechanized subspecies used to appear regularly as the rotogravure
> section of the Sunday papers in the thirties and forties. Usually
> printed in sepia/browntone, it was a fixture of the society pages:
>
> "and you'll find that you're
> in the rotogravure..."
>
> (A buck if you can name the song. Canadian buck).
>
> Photogravure was a feature of the most elaborate series on photography
> ever published in the US, the ten-volume *Complete Photographer*
> edited by Willard Morgan, 1940-43. Each volume contained several
> photogravure sections, each with up to a dozen illustrations, many by
> the great B&W photographers of the day (and the past as well). It
> was/is truly a wonderful way to reproduce tones, but Lenswork's
> sneering de haut en bas tone with respect to ink jet prints, and the
> implication that only a few little old clockmakers can print
> photogravure is pretentious and silly. I've seen many ink-jet prints
> from this very company of printers that equalled Photogravure. PG was
> dethroned by duotone printing after the war, as tastes shifted to more
> open midtone- and high value-reproduction rather than the rich but
> dark low values of photogravure.
>
> Incidentially, if you think you have some of the older photogravure
> repros in your collections, a loupe will discover the tiny square
> boxes that contain and transfer the ink and diagnose the process.
>
> I don't know what's become of the process these days. Perhaps Ernst
> can comment.
>
> Bob Bollini
>
> >
> > I'd like to understand just how the photogravure varies the tones.
> I'm
> not
> > finding any really good information on that, but a close-up of the
> plate
> > would probably help quite a bit...
> >
> > Here's one more explanation, a bit more detailed, but over my head:
> >
> > http://haleysteele.com/hs_root/learning/technical/index.html
> >
> > I'll have to read it a couple of times very slowly to get any
> understanding
> > of it.  Very bizarre picture as an example of PG by the way.
>
> Thanks for the link. Very interesting although his explainations and
> constant referrences to other printing methods I don't understand make
> it a
> bit difficult. I do get from it that the ink density in the print is
> controled by the depth of the acid etching.
>
> Martin
>
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