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Photographer: Paul Gallagher

	Our methods offer the artist and photographer the opportunity to create truly unique individual prints and reproductions of their work. We offer monochrome and full colour printing using traditional techniques mainly from the 19th Century or earlier. Almost all of our printing requires the use of very basic hand operated presses, with printing plates made, inked and printed by hand. The nature of each process ensures that every print from a plate possesses subtle differences. We live in an age where we are bombarded by imagery, and when individuality can be found it has a highperceived value, both artistically and commercially.

	Full Colour Photographic Print: David Noble
	" ... The process produces a work of real beauty..." Joe Cornish - Photographer

Photographer: Campos & Davis

PhotoGravure

The image is etched into a copper plate using the same principles and printing methid of the Etching process.

A PhotoGravure image however, is prepared using very exacting and timeconsuming methods. The image is created on carbon tissue using a gelatin base, the resulting image has a tonal structure and texture that is unqiue to the process, yielding velvet blacks and soft greys.

" ... the prints are fantastic"

Campos & Davis - Photographer

Collotype

This process is similar to PhotoGravure using a sensitised gelatin and carbon base to create a glass printing plate. The plate is treated and inked to utilise the surface texture of the gelatin, it is then printed using a press.

A full colour print is obtained in much the same way as a PhotoLithographic print using several plates.

Etching & PhotoEtching

We etch the image into a copper plate using a salt which reacts to etch a “tooth”, the ink is held in the tooth in varying depths creating the range of tone in the print.

The plate is inked by hand and the excess removed, again by hand, and then placed against the paper and rolled through a press resembling a large clothes mangle. The plate is embossed into the paper transferring the image.

" ... I could see it as a beautifully
produced piece of fine art ..."

Paul Gallagher - Photographer

Lithography & PhotoLithography

The image is developed onto a stone or a plate, the image is inked by hand in such a way to take advantage of the natural properties of oil and water, and printed directly or offset to the paper.

To obtain a full colour print, several plates are made and printed in exact registration, each carrying a different colour.


Photographer: Paul Gallagher	Photographer: Grahame Jackson	David Noble