Carbon transfer printing : a step-by-step manual, featuring contemporary carbon printers and their creative practice / Sandy King, Don Nelson, John Lockhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Sandy, author.

Lockhart, John, author.

Nelson, Donald, author.

Series:

Contemporary practices in alternative process photography series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Printing processes.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Carbon Transfer Printing is a book about one of the earliest photographic processes that provided the first permanent printing methods, available in one form or another for over 150 years. This book reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes in both monochrome and color.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

About the Authors

PART ONE History of the Carbon Process and Carbon Transfer Printing Step-by-Step

Chapter 1 History of the Carbon Transfer Process

Monochrome Carbon Transfer

Three-color Carbon

Timeline of the History of Carbon Printing

Chapter 2 Overview, and Making your First Carbon Transfer Print

Step 1-Make the Carbon Tissue

Step 2-Sensitize and Dry the Carbon Tissue

Step 3-Expose the Tissue to a Negative with Ultraviolet Light

Step 4-Mate the Tissue with a Temporary or Final Substrate

Step 5-Develop the Print

Step 6-Clear and Finish the Print

Chapter 3 Supplies and Materials

Introduction

Negative Preparation

Carbon Tissue Preparation

Final Supports for the Print

Sensitizing the Tissue

Exposing the Tissue

Mating the Tissue to Substrate

Development

Print Finishing

Chapter 4 The Working Environment

Lighting

Humidity and Temperature

The Wet Area

The Drying Area

Drying Unsensitized Printing Materials

Drying Sensitized Tissue

The Printing Area

Chapter 5 Negatives for Carbon Printing

Section One-Notes on Basic Densitometry

The Characteristic Curve

Using Transmission Step Scales

Procedures for Testing with a Step Wedge

Determine Base Minimum Printing Time with a Step Wedge

Calculating Exposure Scale (ES)

Section Two-Crafting the Analog Film Negative for Carbon Printing

In-camera Film Negatives

Section Three-Digital Negatives

Getting Started with QTR

Printing with QTR Profiles

Install QTR

Install your Printer

Create a Custom QuadTone RIP Profile for Carbon Printing

Step 1-Determine a Standard Print Time

Step 2-Print an Ink Separation Image to Determine Inks and Proportions

Step 3-Create a Custom QTR Profile.

Step 4-Install the Profile and Print the 21-step Digital Negative

Step 5-Adjust Ink Density to Get Dmax and Paper White

Step 6-Linearize the Profile

Linearizing with the CURVE_K

Linearizing with the LINEARIZE=

Chapter 6 Making Supports for Single and Double Transfer Carbon Printing

Preparing Fixed-out Photographic Paper

Sizing Watercolor Paper

Sizing Watercolor Paper with Polyvinyl Acetate or Acrylic Medium

Sizing Watercolor Paper with Hardened Gelatin

Sizing the Paper

Light Hardening of Watercolor Papers Sized with Gelatin or Albumen Plus Hardener

The Albumen Solution

Prepare the Gelatin Sizing Mixture and Coat the Paper

Surface Prepping of Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer

Sizing Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer

Preparation of Final Paper Supports for Double Transfer

Steps

Sizing for Glass as a Carbon Transfer Support

Classic Glass Sizing

Modern Adhesion Promoter as a Sizing Agent

Other Methods

Chapter 7 Making Carbon Tissue

How to Make Carbon Tissue

Making Pigmented Gelatin

Selecting a Gelatin

Preparing the Pigmented Gelatin

Coating Tissue

Tip: Annotate the Back of Your Tissues

The Laydown Method for Coating

Preparation for Coating

Basic Hand Coating

Hand Coating the Tissue

Tip: Calculating Volumes for Coating Height

Using a Magnetic Frame and Rod

Coating the Tissue with a Rod

Using a Mayer Rod

Coating with a Mayer Rod

Selecting and Using Pigments

Inks

Watercolor Pigments

Pigment Dispersions

Dry Pigments

Using an Improvised Ball Mill Storing Tissue

Chapter 8 Basic Working Procedures for Single Carbon

Overview

Preparing a Printing Session

Mixing the Sensitizer with a Spirit

Details of the Procedures.

Applying the Sensitizer

Hybrid Dab-brush Sensitizing

Dry the Sensitized Tissue

Expose the Sensitized Tissue

Mate the Exposed Tissue to the Final Support

Mating the Tissue and Support

Saving a Print with a Frilled Edge

Chapter 9 Multilayer Transfer Carbon

Correct Orientation

Aesthetic Qualities

Duotones and Full Color CMY and CMYK

The Temporary Support

Performing the First Transfer and Development

Transfer to Soluble Support Paper

Triple Transfer

Pin Registration

Chapter 10 Color Carbon

Contemporary Color Carbon Printing

Making a Color Carbon Print: Overview of Contemporary Practice

Basic CMY Color Calibration Methodology

Identify Suitable Pigments

Design the Pigment Tissues

Linearize the CMY Layers

Adjust the CMY Layers for Gray Balance

Make a Carbon Print

Create an .icc Profile for More Accurate Color Reproduction

Hybrid Color: Combining Color Capture on Film with Digital Methodology

Chapter 11 Alternative Materials and Working Methods with the Carbon Process

Section One-Historical Review

Pigment Prints with Direct Carbon Processes

Pigment Prints with the Carbro Process

Pigment Prints by Exposure through Substrate

Section Two-Alternative Light Sensitive Agents with Carbon Printing, with some Practical Workflow Procedures

Silver Bromide

Diazonium Compounds

Practical Use of Diazonium Compounds in Carbon Printing

Making the Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue

Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue #1-Diazon 22lz

Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue #2-DAS

UltraStable Color Clearing Bath

Ferric Salts

Ferric Carbon with Exposure through the Substrate on a Permanent Base

Exposure

Wash off Development

Clearing

Double Transfer Ferric Carbon.

Steps in Making a Double Transfer Ferric Carbon Print

Chapter 12 Finishing the Print

Drying and Flattening

Spotting

Applying Finishes to Prints

Applying Picture Varnish

Overcoating with Gelatin

PART TWO Contemporary Carbon Transfer Artists

Chapter 13 Artists and Their Creative Practice

Tod Gangler

Sam Wang

Michal Macků

Javier De Reparaz

Vaughn Hutchins

Fred Dusel

Erin Kice

Cheng Hua

Zhong Jianming

Philip Schwartz

Kane Stewart

Bruce Campbell

Jim Fitzgerald

Andrew Musil

Marek Matusz

Sidney Kapuskar

David Christensen

Majo Guerrero Fonseca

Andrew O'Neill

Gary Baker

Dave Hatton

Cathy Cakebread

Mark L. Freedman

Jonathan Taala

Ellie Young

Appendix A Suppliers and Resources

Appendix B Safe Practice

Appendix C Sites with Significant Collections of Vintage Carbon Prints

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780429425196

0429425198

9780429757273

0429757271

OCLC:

1395958305