The Half-Tone Process: A Practical Manual of Photo-Engraving in Half-Tone on Zinc and Copper (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Julius Verfasser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282803912 ISBN 13: 9780282803919

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Half-Tone Process: A Practical Manual of Photo-Engraving in Half-Tone on Zinc and Copper

HE present work, the first that has been issued - in the English language, at least dealing with The half-tone Process, makes no pretensions to exhaustiveness. The popular price at which it is issued rendered it necessary that the subject should be treated concisely. My difficulty has, therefore, been to be comprehensive whilst being brief; I hope I have succeeded in this respect.

My aim has been to make the book a practical manual, and I have studiously avoided theoretical considerations. The appliances and processes I have treated are such as are in use to-day in the leading half-tone studios, and I have described no method but of which I have had personal experience.

To those who take this book up as a guide, let me say that there are few businesses which depend for success so absolutely upon working under proper conditions, and with suitable appliances, as that of half-tone. I have avoided explaining how this or that may be used as a makeshift. If any of my readers depart from these instructions in an endeavour to modify the method or dispense withsome of the essential appliances, they must only blame themselves if they fail.

As the numerous illustrations to this work so greatly increase its usefulness, I must express my indebtedness to Messrs. Penrose Co., of the photo-process Stores, Clerkenwell, London, for not only lending all available blocks of their own specialities, but also for collecting from abroad cliches of goods for which they are agents.

It is possible that I shall be blamed by some of the older members of the trade for having written such a book at all. But the time has surely gone by for the old-fashioned jealousy against trade handbooks. The Spread of technical knowledge is now recognised to be as essential as elementary education to the progress of. The corn munity, and so far from a trade being injured by publicity, its methods may be, in fact, improved, not only through the accession of new blood, but also by the old workers finding their own know ledge increased and enlarged in the perusal of handbooks and trade journals.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282803912
• ISBN 13: 9780282803919
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 148