Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Loris Medici" 
<lorism@t...> wrote:
> The only ferrotype I know is the alt. process one (also named 
tintype).
> If there's another ferrotype process please explain; I would like 
to
> learn about it. 

What I was referring to isn't an entire process, just a finish for 
fiber-based glossy paper: you soaked the print in a glazing 
solution, and then dried it emulsion-down on a drum dryer to produce 
a mirror-gloss finish. Very popular in the 1950's and '60s for 
commercial work, but it was always finicky; it became obsolete in a 
hurry when RC paper improved enough in the mid-late seventies. 
Perhaps the name was appropriated from an obsolete (and recently 
revived) alt. process?