Karen, I'm so grateful for this video, am getting back to this process after a number of years and this really helps. Your video is clear, thorough and immediately practical. Thanks, Bianca
Thank you for the video! It's very informative and practical, and include great tips such as using a towel and rolling pin to dry the paper. The final work is stunning.
Is the aquatint screen needed when positive is produced with ink jet / laser printer ? Stochastic screen should be integrated into printed image or not?
Dear Karen i think Polymer Photogravure is a Way of printing that i will try in the next Month. But one Question is how many Prints can i make with one Polymer-Plate? Thanks in Advanced and a great 2022. Thomas from Germany
Hi. The plates are very sturdy, I've made 25 to 30 prints and you could keep going. They tend to boa little but the pressure of the press makes him still print well. In the US it is a little hard to get the plates but I like the solar play brand ones best. Good luck! It is a super fun process
Strictly speaking this isn't photo-gravure, it's photo-polymer intaglio. A photo-gravure is made by etching an image on a plate in a mordant, such as nitric acid or ferric chloride, to give an etched intaglio image. There is no etching involved in this process. Nice work, nonetheless.
Strictly speaking you are wrong - this is a photo-gravure process as much as if the print was produced by a copper plate etched by acid is. Just because the polymer plate is etched with water instead of an acid does not change anything; it's still an "etched" plate. A simple check of the dictionary would have told you so - "Photogravure is any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made." I suppose you could make the argument that it's not a metal plate but after being cured it's actually harder than a copper plate for gravure printing. Nonetheless you're right that she does nice work. In fact after checking her work is excellent and this is a good video explaining the photogravure process for those that did know or understand the process.
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This is fascinating. Randomly stumbled across this after finding out about photopolymers. Down the rabbit hole we go 🎉
Karen, I'm so grateful for this video, am getting back to this process after a number of years and this really helps. Your video is clear, thorough and immediately practical. Thanks, Bianca
Thank you for the video! It's very informative and practical, and include great tips such as using a towel and rolling pin to dry the paper. The final work is stunning.
Dear Karen, your work is stunning!
Thanks for the video! Very helpful as I’m gathering all the information I can get about this process.
Beautiful images, beautiful prints !!!!!
Great video. Can't wait to give it a go.
I enjoyed everything about this.
amazing work thank you! Karen!
Thanks for sharing. Very Clear and didactic. Love it
Love your work!!
Wonderful, many thanks for sharing!
Nice informative video, thank you. Now where does one find affordable solarplates?
Is the aquatint screen needed when positive is produced with ink jet / laser printer ? Stochastic screen should be integrated into printed image or not?
Yes, you do need to use the aquatint screen. I expose the plate first with the screen and second with the positive.
Well done! Thanks
Awesome work Karen. One question, how do you do your test times? One test for the first exposure and one for the second one?
yes, they are different times. I use one large plate as a test and do a grid on it - email me if you would like more details. karenhymer@gmail.com
Dear Karen i think Polymer Photogravure is a Way of printing that i will try in the next Month. But one Question is how many Prints can i make with one Polymer-Plate?
Thanks in Advanced and a great 2022.
Thomas from Germany
Hi. The plates are very sturdy, I've made 25 to 30 prints and you could keep going. They tend to boa little but the pressure of the press makes him still print well. In the US it is a little hard to get the plates but I like the solar play brand ones best. Good luck! It is a super fun process
I have done editions up to 35 with no problem.
Strictly speaking this isn't photo-gravure, it's photo-polymer intaglio. A photo-gravure is made by etching an image on a plate in a mordant, such as nitric acid or ferric chloride, to give an etched intaglio image. There is no etching involved in this process. Nice work, nonetheless.
Strictly speaking you are wrong - this is a photo-gravure process as much as if the print was produced by a copper plate etched by acid is. Just because the polymer plate is etched with water instead of an acid does not change anything; it's still an "etched" plate. A simple check of the dictionary would have told you so - "Photogravure is any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made." I suppose you could make the argument that it's not a metal plate but after being cured it's actually harder than a copper plate for gravure printing. Nonetheless you're right that she does nice work. In fact after checking her work is excellent and this is a good video explaining the photogravure process for those that did know or understand the process.