Polymer Photogravure

Rags

admin — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:15:48 +0000

Really?? Okay, this is pretty mundane stuff. But you will find that when working with gravure (copper or polymer) that you use a lot of cloth rags for virtually everything – things such as drying your hands, cleaning your work area and wiping the edges of the plate before printing. And this last item, plate [...]

Old KM73 Plates

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:45:18 +0000

What effect does age have on the Toyobo KM73 Plates?… They gain contrast. More? Okay – here is the story. I purchased a large stack of plates from Boxcar Press about two years. I used many of them, but then had to put away my press for almost a year as we moved to another [...]

Screen versus image exposure – Toyobo KM73 plates

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:08:14 +0000

What effect does the screen exposure time have??? Any intaglio printing plate has two requirements. First, it needs to have depressions from the surface of the plate in areas that will hold ink. Second, these depressions need to have a way of holding on to the ink as the plate is wiped. This is accomplished [...]

Calibration aids

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:21:53 +0000

Some plate exposure calibration aids I have been running into some difficulties with wildly varying exposures on a stack of older plates. The plates are probably well over a year and half old at this point. While teaching the process this weekend, we would get a brilliant plate with one combination of screen and image [...]

Status

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:46:23 +0000

Hang on! I began this site back in February 2011, and then almost immediately became immersed in a relocation. Pretty much nothing has happened in the last year. I am now ready to start adding content to the site, and in fact, am working on some static content having to do with calibration and the [...]

Purpose

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:29:09 +0000

I am designing this website to be a central repository of mostly static information having to do with making continuous tone photographic photogravure prints using the new polymer gravure plates. I found some information on the web when I was learning this process, but it was quite widely disseminated and in many cases not terribly [...]