Featured Great site for identifying printing processes

I found this site today, a "Graphics Atlas," an educational site maintained by the Rochester Institute of Technology that's a great resource for learning about different printing techniques.

http://www.graphicsatlas.org/

In addition to descriptions of a wide spectrum of printing processes, there are excellent visual examples.

A really great feature is that you can manipulate the images to see the back and edge of the paper, change the light source so you can see any texture on the surface, and zoom way in to see the printed surface in detail as if under a microscope.

Definitely an excellent resource for anyone buying or selling paper items... I know I'll be returning to it regularly.

 

Cool beans! Thanks for posting it!

 

Pat, That site was opened up about 2 years ago. I've mentioned it several times in response to people's posts.... maybe not here, but in the old place, and also on FB.

Thanks for giving Graphics Atlas its own thread!!!

 

Messi and Fig, you're welcome!

Fig, I guess I never saw your posts... isn't it a wonderful site?

I should mention that the site covers processes used for photographs as well as prints, though I haven't looked at those pages yet.

 

Pat, I have mostly used the photograph part of the site, as you might imagine.

Here is the only post I can find on this Antiquers site where I mentioned it, in March of this year. At that time you were taking a break from posting here:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/a...ji-kyoto-frederick-keppel-co.3356/#post-47136

Fig

 

Yup, I wasn't back yet when you posted the link. I'm sure I would have checked it out when you did otherwise!

 

Links are great. I know we sometimes forget (well, I have senior moments) so it's good to be reminded.

 

Know what you mean about senior moments, Bev.