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The Darkroom Cookbook, 5th Edition
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The Darkroom Cookbook, 5th Edition

by Steve Anchell
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
14h 4m
English
Routledge
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16Printing Out Processes

DOI: 10.4324/9781003353317-20

“You must always believe that there is fertile soil for your ideas. If you lose hope, then you will miss opportunities to plant a seed.”

—Ruth Bernhard

The use of P.O.P. is a time-honored method for making inexpensive prints without a darkroom.

The term “printing out paper” and the associated initials P.O.P. were introduced in 1891 by the Ilford Company for their gelatin-chloride papers. The name has come to be applied to salted paper and similar processes.

The P.O.P. process is probably the best introduction to hand-coating paper and alternative processes. If you are new to alternative processes, the easiest to use and learn are salted paper and cyanotype.

The basic printing technique ...

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