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The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media
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The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

by Bonny Pierce Lhotka
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 43m
English
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10. Photopolymer Plate Process

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In some ways, this chapter is like coming home again. My beautiful Griffin etching press had sat largely unused since I started working with digital and inkjet technologies in the 1990s. Now, thanks to this photopolymer plate process, I’ve dusted it off and again get to enjoy the traditional printmaking.

Decades ago, Dan Welden developed his Solarplate™ for use in the photopolymer etching process, which exposes the photosensitive polymer plate underneath a photographic transparency (usually a positive) to the sun. After washing off the unexposed polymer from the plate under running water and hardening the emulsion ...

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