The Collotype Printing Process: A Proposal for Its Revival 2016-02-07

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Mustafa Umut Sarac submitted a new resource:

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The Collotype Printing Process: A Proposal for Its Revival
Author(s): Kent Kirby Source: Leonardo, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 183-186
Published by: The MIT Press
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Abstract-The author discusses the collotype printing process that was developed during
the 19th century primarily for the reproduction of fine photographs with high fidelity is
important. The process is described in considerable detail. Although collotype is now...

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[BrianShaw]

Here is another useful on-line article about collotype.

http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/atlas_collotype.pdf

 

[gzinsel]

I own a first edition of this book, its a good read. Also check into the Now defunked company, Blackbox collotype. it was in Chicago they printed collotype up until `1998? I think. I visited their shop while still in business. It went down like so many other old school print shops.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Collotype Master Thesis 1997 from RIT

The Collotype: History, Process, & Photographic Documentation by Denis Defibaugh 1997
Rochester Institute of Technology

Master Thesis

Find the detailed process information and recioes at two pdf files , total 1 mb.

Umut