From: ward (ward@kasnet.com)
Date: 11/21/00-11:36:52 PM Z
Hi, Hope all is well.
Listening out for advise.
Give me your studio address so I might send you some prints.
Good wishes,
Cecil.
At 11:48 AM 11/21/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Metro Imaging do not do it anymore as I was the person who made the Gravure
>at Metro. I left in 1998 and they continued offering it but were using
>polymer instead of copper.
>The only people I know making dustgrain copper gravure are Lothar Osterburg
>in New York and John Goodman somewhere on the Eastcoast. And someone in
>Seattle and Paul Taylor somewhere on the East coast and Luc Jansens in
>California. Then there is Deli Sacilotto at Graphic Studio, he made the
>Maplethorpe Gravures. There are a few more, someone in Japan etc. Also some
>do use a screen instead of an aquatint this method is just as good as the
>aquatint. It is the person making the gravure and how they use the screen or
>the dust aquatint that makes it a good gravure. I have seen both methods and
>when done well they are both exquisite.
>I suggest that you need to be careful with the terminology when searching:
>if you refer to it as commercial gravure then you will get Rotogravure which
>is a mechanised version, made with an etched drum on a press. This was and
>still is used for high quality books and also used for packaging.
>You can contact Lothar at photogravure@earthlink.net if he cannot do it
>then he knows all the above and can refer you to them.
>Good luck
>Amanda Lane
>
>--
>
>
>----------
> >From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>
> >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >Subject: Re: commercial gravure
> >Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2000, 10:19 am
> >
>
> > Hisun.Wong@citicorp.com writes:
> >
> >> Is there anyone offer photogravure services? I am interested in
> >> having one professionally made to see what it is. I have heard so
> >> much about it.
> >
> > Metro Imaging's Art department in London certainly used to do it and I
> > think they still can, but it's no longer a price list item.
> >
> > --
> > Piers
> >
> >
> >
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