Photographic Media and Photo Art Reproduction - A Guide to Terminology

The range of photographic media for photo-art reproduction has grown rapidly in recent years. For serious collectors and casual at once, it pays to understand the differences in methodology, and the potential impact of the acquisition price and value of the investment for the next few years. Here are some of the key concepts and processes that are applying to it

Type C-Prints

Darkroom / wet prints from color negatives or slides made. Before digital technologythese were the pressures we all received from the pharmacies from our vacation movies. They were also produced in larger sizes for exhibitions. Type C-prints are now archiving and continue to be preferred by some photographers and collectors of digital art prints.

Fine-art digital prints, also known as Giclee, Iris or type inkjet prints

The most common method of production collectible prints in the digital age, is accomplished by scanning the original negative or a balancedigital file from a digital camera, and out-put the picture, retouched in general, on different media types with archival inks. The advantage is that very fine quality coated papers can be used delicately, his beautiful prints. Rock Archive's Edition 100 is in this way in various sizes with no loss of quality.

Lambda or Lightjet

This kind of expression contains elements of the traditional darkroom printing and digital technology. The original is a negativebe scanned, or set a digital image, and output the resulting image on photo paper with the aid of laser light. The prints are of the same archival value in the traditional RC photographic prints or C-type prints on plastic-based papers with the advantage that some collectors to be called "photographic prints.

Lenticular

Lenticular printing is a multistage process consisting of creating an image of at least two other images, and together with aspecial lens. This process can be used to create different images of the animation (for a motion effect), or simply to a number of alternative images that can convert have another show.

The combined lenticular prints two or more different images simply by showing the perspective from which the pressure so far.

Other Print Types

There are a number of different printing processes immediately with traditional and contemporaryTechniques.

Screen Printing

A screen is a piece of porous, finely woven fabric (originally silk, but typically made of polyester since the 1940s) on a frame made of aluminum or wood tense. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a permeable material to a template that will print a negative of the image form, ie, the open spaces where the ink will appear.

The screen is placed on a substrate such as papyrus or fabric. The ink is placed onFill up on the screen and a bar (even as a flood of cash) shall be used to fill the mesh openings with ink. The operator begins with the fill bar at the back of the screen and behind a reservoir of ink. The operator lifts the screen to avoid contact with the substrate and then with a small amount of downward force pulls the bar to fill the screen before. It actually fills the mesh openings with ink and moves the ink reservoir at the front of the screen. The operator then uses aSqueegee (rubber blade) to the grid down to the substrate and pushes the squeegee on the back of the screen. The ink, which is incorporated into the mesh through the capillary to the substrate in a controlled and specific amount, ie the wet ink is equal to the thickness of the stencil. Since the steps toward the back of the screen the tension of the mesh, the mesh moves to squeegee from the substrate leaving the ink on the surface of the substrate.

Silver gelatinFiber-prints

Prints from an original black and white negative in the darkroom using chemicals and fiber papers are as silver-gelatin fiber prints known. They are valuable to collectors, especially as these now historic method of making pressure, combined with the fragility of the mean old negatives, the prints are rare. One of the characteristics of these prints is that they are not always completely dry flat and can be a little "wavy look" when framed by the processin which they are made. They are also particularly sensitive to moisture in the air and must be treated with special care.

RC Silver Gelatin Prints

A silver gelatin RC print refers to a picture on resin-coated paper. These pictures are from negatives in the darkroom from the use of chemicals, but on plastic-based paper, lighter than glass fiber papers to work with him. You also have the added advantage of drying flat. However, RC prints can be less "rich" in order toTone and texture than traditional fiber prints.