Copper Plate Printing Press
The firm pressure of the printing press slowly rubs out the finer details of the image with every pass through.
Copper plate printing press. Antique wood copper printing press block w race horse jockey 2 1 8 vg. Customs services and international tracking provided. Copper plate etching is a traditional form of printmaking that delivers beautifully crisp line work and a wonderfully unique aesthetic. Vintage copper printing plate on wood hudson perfection sprayer.
Top rated seller top rated seller. Copper plate is the ideal matrix for making mezzotints it is not so hard that the mezzotint rocker will be damaged yet it offers excellent retention of detail considering the pressures required during printing. From united states c 24 18 shipping. Printing presses and accessories printing plates and blocks block printing tools printmaking kits screen printing frames and tools etching and intaglio tools.
The water film on the non image areas rejects the ink while the greasy image attracts it. Steel on the other hand is incredibly durable. Vtg copper wood printing press plate block stamp bulb basket of world holland. The paper is applied and run through a special press under extremely high pressure.
Photogravure registers a wide variety of tones through the transfer of etching ink from an etched copper plate to special dampened paper run through an etching press. In the late 90s my mom and i picked up some old copper printing plates link goes to flickr set from an estate sale in connecticut. We spent an hour or so picking out a few neat looking ones from a huge set i would estimate about 100 150 of these printing plates stored in boxes and wrapped in old newspaper the newspaper was from the 1950s if i remember right. The plate or stone is inked by wetting the surface and then running the inked roller over it.
The plate is then inked and stamped against a sheet of paper at pressures of up to two tons per square inch causing the image to be transferred to the paper stock. If printed without modifying the tooth generated by the rocking of the plate a mezzotint plate would print with a rich intense field. First invented simply as a method of replicating an image intaglio printmaking has evolved over centuries into an art form in it s own right. The extreme force used in the copperplate printing process presses the paper deep into the engraved areas of the printing plate creating an impression on the paper surface.
Make offer antique wood copper printing press block w race horse jockey 2 1 8 vg. The unique tonal range comes from photogravure s variable depth of etch that is the shadows are etched many times deeper than the highlights.