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SEPIA PAPER [2 records]

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Reprography
  • Types of Paper
DEF

a photographic paper sensitized by a process analogous to kallitype and used especially for plan copying.

OBS

kallitype: a contact printing-out photographic process that uses paper sensitized with a ferric salt and silver nitrate and a developer containing borax and Rochelle salt.

DEF

for "sepia" : Translucent papers, plasticized or unplasticized, that have been treated with diazonium salts which when processed turn brown in colour. Used as an inexpensive intermediate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Reprographie
  • Sortes de papier
OBS

La diazocopie se cantonne (...) dans les limites du tirage de plans (...) Les papiers actuellement disponibles pour la diazocopie permettent d'obtenir différentes couleurs: bleu, noir, havane, marron, sanguine, ocre, sépia. (...) Ils peuvent être transparents, translucides, opaques (...)

Spanish

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Record 2 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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