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Collotype
Some fascinating videos here about one of the last collotype printers in the world.
http://petapixel.com/2015/05/26/a-lo...-in-the-world/
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Fascinating indeed... Thanks Roy
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I remember the first time I saw collotype prints, as an office boy under the print buyer in an advertising agency. They were small(A4) proofs from LF colour transparancies of glasses of beer, the images were finally to be on billboards. No screen/dot structure in the images, smooth and beautiful tones. The trannies were the first large ones I'd seen too. The firms in the video are in Japan, I remember Switzerland being a centre of the process. I had long ago some postcards featuring reproductions of drawings by Burne-Jones done by collotype. A friend who worked in a public art gallery showed me what the gallery thought were a donated Renoir drawing and a Cezanne watercolour which when taken out of the frames for reframing proved to be on examination high quality reproductions which I was sure were made by the collotype process. Superb for watercolour. The British artist Richard Hamilton used the process for some of his prints.
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Hopeful
I could see myself in the video as the girl beside the machine, though first, I am a man; and second, I have less than 1 year experience, not in collotyping (even spell check doesn't recognize the word), but in film photography. While watching the video, I admit I felt saddened by the company being one of the last of the collotype printers in the whole world. I don't know how artisan companies in Japan survive. They must have government subsidies, right? I felt like I was watching the last of a specie of a rare elephant. But, I am hopeful because there would be others that would carry the torch, just like what we do with film photography.
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