Ilford Ilfoscript !what is it?

[Melvin J Bramley]

 

[MattKing]

The trade name was registered in 1971, but the registration expired in the 1990s.
I was 15 in 1971, but thankfully I remain unexpired .
Do you have a more readable photo?

 

[AnselMortensen]

If I had to guess, I'd say it is typesetting paper.

 

[Sharktooth]

Here's what I got from Perplexity Ai

"Ilford Ilfoscript was a branded darkroom printing paper made by Ilford, designed to give a high‑contrast, “script-like” graphic look, mainly for line art, titles, and bold text rather than continuous‑tone photographs."

What was more interesting was the link that was provided.
This site has an amazing history of Ilford https://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Chronology.html
It's strange that there is no reference to Ilfoscript, even though Perplexity had it as the reference.

The home page for Photographic Memorabilia is here https://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/index.html
Well worth a look for things other than just Ilford.

 

[MattKing]

In the 1970s I used something similar - Kodak branded I believe - in a machine that made headlines for inclusion with text and line art on paste-up sheets that were then photographed with a repro camera on to lithographer's film which then was used to burn plates for use on an offset press.
In other words:

If I had to guess, I'd say it is typesetting paper.