Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone / Also Collotype and Heliotype
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Excerpt from Photo-Engraving, Photo-Etching, and Photo-Lithography in Line and Half-ToneBesides revising the English edition and incorporating in proper place such additions as I have found useful in practice, I have boiled down the best points from current publications in France and Germany, and added them....
Chapters (107)
- Photo-engraving, Photo-etching, and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone; Also Collotype and Heliotype; By W. T. Wilkinson, Revised and Enlarged by Edward L. Wilson.
- Preface.
- List of Illustrations.
- Introduction.
- Part I. Photo-engraving in Line.
- Chapter I. Appliances For Making Photographic Negatives.
- Chapter II. The Wet Collodion Process.
- The Collodion.
- The Iodizer.
- The Nitrate of Silver Bath (1).
- The Nitrate of Silver Bath (2).
- The Developing Solution.
- The Fixing Or Clearing Solution.
- The Intensifier.
- Protecting The Collodion Film.
- The Glass Plate.
- Chapter III. Photographic Manipulations.
- The Use Of Gelatine Dry Plates In Photo-engraving.
- The Reproduction Of Negatives.
- Stripping Collodion Films.
- The Reversing Mirror.
- Chapter IV. Apparatus For Printing Upon Zinc.
- Polishing The Zinc.
- Graining The Plate.
- Coating The Plate With Sensitive Albumen.
- Drying The Coated Zinc.
- The Printing Frame.
- Timing And Exposure.
- Inking The Exposed Zinc.
- Chapter V. Printing on the Zinc in Albumen.
- Chapter VI. Printing on Zinc in Bitumen.
- Developing The Image.
- Chapter VII. Direct Transfers to Zinc.
- Chapter VIII. Etching Line Transfers.
- Part II. Photo-engraving in Half-tone.
- Chapter I. Retrospective.
- Chapter II. Making Grained Negatives.
- The Screen.
- The Grained Negative.
- Chapter III. Etching in Half-tone.
- When The Print Is In Albumen.
- When The Image Is In Bitumen.
- Chapter IV. Printing from the Block.
- Chapter V. The Transfer of the Drawing, and Its Treatment Before Etching.
- The Further Treatment Of The Transfer.
- The Etching and Its Intermediate Treatment Before Mounting The Cliché.
- Etching By The French Method.
- The Austrian Method—the Etching On.
- Middle Etching.
- Deep Etching.
- Round Etching.
- Clean Etching.
- Finishing And Mounting The Plate.
- Chapter VI. Hints from All Sources.
- As To The Drawing.
- Fading Out The Photograph.
- The Reversal Of Drawings (Negative Printing).
- Etching Apparatus.
- The Best Drying Box.
- To Produce Grain On A Negative.
- On The Use Of Acids.
- Multiplication of Zinc Etchings by Galvanic Means And by Stereotyping.
- Preparing Zinc Plates On The Printer’s Press.
- Etching With Sulphate Of Copper Solution.
- Process For High Etching In Relief.
- The Running Of A Workshop.
- Some Wrinkles And Dodges.
- Carbon Printing.
- Colas’s Black Process.
- Mordants For Etching.
- The Difference.
- Part III. Photo-engraving on Copper.
- Chapter I. Subjects in Line.
- Chapter II. Half-tone Intaglios.
- Chapter III. Half-tone Intaglios—(Continued).
- Chapter IV. Half-tone Intaglios. Electrotyping Methods.
- Part IV. Photo-lithography in Line.
- Chapter I.
- Chapter II. Paper Transfers.
- Chapter III. Paper Transfers—(Continued).
- Chapter IV. Toovey’s Negative Transfer Process.
- Chapter V. Photo-litho. Transfers.
- To Develop Photo-litho. Transfers.
- Part V. Photo-lithography in Half-tone.
- Chapter I.
- Chapter II. Ink Photos.
- Chapter III. Husband’s Papyrotint Process.
- Part VI. Collographic Printing.
- Chapter I. Half-tone Photographic Negatives.
- Chapter II. The Heliotype Process.
- The Rollers.
- Preparation And Care Of The Rollers.
- Heliotype Skin
- The Pewter Plate.
- The Mask.
- The Heliotype Skin.
- Printing The Picture.
- Exposure To Light
- Sunning The Back Of The Skin.
- Mounting On The Pewter Plate.
- Printing From The Skin.
- Chapter III. the Collotype Process.
- The Preliminary Coating Of
- Chapter IV. Printing from the Collotype Plate.
- Chapter V. The New Home Printing Process.
- Index.
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