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SEPIA PAPER PROCESS [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intaglio Printing
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
  • Photography
DEF

A brown print process [by which paper] sensitized with silver nitrate, ferric ammonium citrate and citric acid is exposed under line drawings when the ferrous salt produced by light action reduces the silver nitrate producing a brown image which is fixed in hypo.

OBS

... used in USA for making line negatives for photo printing and for proofing colour litho negatives.

Key term(s)
  • Vandyke process

French

Domaine(s)
  • Impression en creux (héliogravure)
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
  • Photographie

Spanish

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