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MR. BENNETT describes in clear and simple language every step of the process of the making of photogravure prints by the screen plate process, leaving the original dust-grain process with little more than a bare mention as out-of-date. He begins with the getting of the necessary apparatus and materials, and estimates the prime cost to one who has the, usual photographic necessities at from 10l. to 15l. This includes a copperplate printing press. The book appears to provide an answer to every question that a photographer, whether amateur or professional, might wish to ask during his first attempts at the process, even as to where the various items may be purchased. In order to render the volume more complete, the final chapter is devoted to the “Elements of Rotary Gravure,” and on the last page Mr. Bennett says that he “does not hesitate to name rotary gravure as the best all-round solution of two and three colour photo-printing.” Flat plate gravure is not well adapted for the superposition of two or more impressions, because the damping of the paper renders registration difficult on account of its expansion thereby, and because the capacity of the paper to pick up copper plate ink is much diminished after its first pull through the press.
Elements of Photogravure, Photo Printing from Copper Plates: Screen Photogravure simply explained, with full Working Instructions and an Explanatory Chapter on Modern Rotary Gravure Printing.
Colin N.
Bennett
By. (Lockwood's Manuals.) Pp. viii + 129. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1926.) 5s. net.
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Elements of Photogravure, Photo Printing from Copper Plates: Screen Photogravure simply explained, with full Working Instructions and an Explanatory Chapter on Modern Rotary Gravure Printing . Nature 118, 513 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118513b0
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