Re: relief

Halvor,

I am in the early stages of starting The Center for Photographic History
and Technology, a tax exempt non-profit organization. The focus is on
preserving the technology of the past. We plan symposiums, and educational
programs, etc. I also want to build a library and scan and ocr important
books like this. The OCR part is unique. Other groups have scanned books
image wise and republished them in paper form but I want to build an
online database where people can search the information. The Gutenberg
Project does something similar but with important works of world literature
and the photo technology focus is obviously not on their agenda.

So please hang on to that book and when I am up and running I am hoping to
get volunteers to do some of the work in scanning and OCR'ing. I plan to
sell paper versions that are printed on demand but the online versions will
be handy for research.

If you can make jpgs of the pages on Wooodbury I can ocr and format the
pages myself. That would be a nice favor.

--Dick

At 08:24 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote:
>Richard Sullivan wrote:
>>Halvor,
>>Thanks!
>>I'll try to get a copy from the Woodbury Encyclopedia. Eastman House has
>>been helpful in doing things like this for me in the past.
>If problem, I can always scan the pages OCR&PDF it and send it as an
>email. This is no problem to do.
>
>Have been considering copying the whole book, but it was this time
>thing.., It is an original, left behind in a shelf by a retiered teacher,
>I rescued the book over into my shelfs.
>
>>I was interested also in your comments that seemed to indicate that you
>>needed a very high relief to pull a Woodbury plate. Is that your opinion?
>my impression is that for a woodbury print to function as a print it
>doesn`t need more relief than a (high) carbon print, this article mentions
>1/200 of an inch, I think some was done in color that is several layers
>which then would be thicker. The gelatin relief makes an impression in
>lead - which then is filled with "carbonised" or pigmented gel and printed
>on paper. So basically a layer thickness that works for carbon would be
>enough to print / color a paper.
>
>It might be that earlier formulaes operated with higher relief, which I
>would like to see..
>
>
>have to run now, more later
>Halvor
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