Digital BW, The Print

I still have a couple of clients that insist on ferrotyped glossy
prints.  I don't know the current requirements, but 5 or 6 years ago,
the national historical archive was still requiring them -NO RC prints
would be accepted nor would they accept air-dried fiber glossy paper.

And I don't use a glazing solution. Water works fine if the plates are
clean and polished.

Hmm, I wonder if you took a piece of fiber F paper, fixed it, air dried
it, printed an image w/ultrachrome ink(sorta waterproof) and then
ferrotyped it?

Robbe Gibson
www.robbepp.com
714-637-3288

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@...] 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:20 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Ferrotype print from digital file?

--- 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?