Dear Gerald & PPletterpressers, As agreed I am sending this test e-mail. I have seen there are now 4 members (a few minutes ago only 3) so I guess I finally...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 16, 2001 1:14 am
Polyfibron.com (one of the major suppliers of Photopolymer plates) has a couple of very useful tech sheets listed on their website. Quickest way to find these...
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Joel Benson
joel.benson@...
Aug 17, 2001 4:46 pm
Hi everyone, I'm new to the list and wanted to send out a self-intro. I'm relatively new to the listserv thing, only been on the LETPRESS and BOOK_ARTS ones ...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 17, 2001 7:35 pm
Dear Justin ....Thanks for the response in TYPO-L. "Polymer-optimised" is an interesting word. I would think that P-optimizing a font like Founders Caslon,...
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Justin Howes
jhowes@...
Aug 17, 2001 10:17 pm
... Probably not too bad, since Fontlab has a fairly high degree of automation and it's possible to apply transformations to any number of selected fonts at...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 17, 2001 11:03 pm
Justin Hadn't thought about Caslon that way. But of course anyone willing to "re-cut" a digital typeface in as many sizes as was the practice of the hand...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 18, 2001 5:22 am
PPL members You can receive messages as they are posted or in daily digest form. The default is the former. If you prefer digest you can make this change...
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Justin Howes
jhowes@...
Aug 18, 2001 8:56 am
For those joining the discussion, it's about what modifications have to be made to a digital font to use it with photopolymer. ... An aside. The lower-case of...
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Erik Desmyter
erik.desmyter@...
Aug 18, 2001 5:50 pm
Dear PPL, If you enter via http://groups.yahoo.com/ with your Yahoo! ID and your password and then go to PPLetterpress you will have access to the Photo Album...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 20, 2001 1:10 am
PPL members: Harold Kyle at Boxcar Press has informed me that phtopolymer plate supplier JetUSA.com is selling a photopolymer platemaker by AZ. I had not heard...
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harold@...
Aug 20, 2001 1:52 pm
PPLers: Thanks, Gerald, for getting the ball started on a polymer list. I was impressed at the first 12 posts, and hope that that the list continues to be such...
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Katie Harper
knharper@...
Aug 20, 2001 2:01 pm
Hello. I'm new to this list and have been trying to figure out how to view past messages. I have been on the Yahoogroups web site, but cannot find any way to...
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Dr P.B. Watry
Pwatry@...
Aug 20, 2001 2:21 pm
Hello everyone This was initially sent to Gerald, who suggested that I resubmit it to the list (see below). I should mention that the DuPont Digital Cromalin...
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harold@...
Aug 20, 2001 2:37 pm
Gerald: I think that you might underestimate the number of people who modify a font in Fontographer before printing it with polymer. I know at least four other...
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Justin Howes
jhowes@...
Aug 20, 2001 2:54 pm
... From: <harold@...> To: <PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:35 PM Subject: [PPLetterpress] Re:...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 20, 2001 3:12 pm
Dear Katie and others To view past messages you need to be insite at PPLetterpress, where you will see a panel on the left. The first word at the top in this ...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 20, 2001 3:22 pm
Dear Justin Over-exposing the plate might seem like the common-sensical approach but its not. You don't have the degree of control you need, and ...
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Joel Benson
joel.benson@...
Aug 20, 2001 6:08 pm
Hi Paul, I used to print 4-color process separations on a Heidelberg windmill, and they have a wonderful quality, though I would say that the output from the...
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Erik Desmyter
erik.desmyter@...
Aug 20, 2001 6:17 pm
Only if you enter via http://groups.yahoo.com/ with your Yahoo! ID and your password and then go to PPLetterpress you will have access to the past messages,...
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Dr P.B. Watry
Pwatry@...
Aug 21, 2001 8:14 am
Joel Many thanks for this message. If you or anyone out there would like to try any of this out, then please get in touch. (I should mention that I will be...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 21, 2001 3:59 pm
Hello all If you hear of folks who thought they have subscribed to PPL but are not receiving messages there are two reasons for this. They failed to confirm...
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Harold "Jay"...
harold@...
Aug 21, 2001 5:35 pm
Erik et al: The glass-topped contact frames are still used for alt-process photography. They're for sale at www.bostick-sullivan.com and explained at ...
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David P. Wall
dpwall@...
Aug 21, 2001 9:00 pm
Greetings all: I work for a printing company that specializes in printing (by offset lithography) 300 line-screen duotone and tritone images, where the...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 21, 2001 9:29 pm
Dear David Will this negative trapping technique work on large blocks of text type, page after page? or just display or headlines, etc? And of course, what are...
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hodgdondc@...
Aug 22, 2001 12:15 pm
Hello: I am very happy to have been invited to join the letterpress group, something I have a very keen interest in. I have been in touch with the faculty at...
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D. McNaughton
dmac@...
Aug 22, 2001 12:28 pm
I am just exploring the possibilities of of PP again. In the early 80's I had a processing unit but after the last 18 years or so in offset I am coming back to...
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Erik Desmyter
erik.desmyter@...
Aug 22, 2001 7:25 pm
... The UV lights in my 3M UV exposure unit are "Philips TLD 15W05". Are these correct UV lights for letterpress photopolymers (somebody told me the frequency...
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dpwall@...
Aug 22, 2001 8:32 pm
Gerald: Yes, you can negative-trap blocks of text-size type, or display type, or even rules, and probably some line art depending on how the line art image...
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Inge Bruggeman
inge@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:43 pm
Hello. I'm glad to see this list running. I'm writing in response to Harold's note: ...All this to say that if you care about the quality of your (expensive) ...
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Gerald Lange
bieler@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:52 pm
Dear David Thanks for the return post. I would very much like to see your sample output. I think letterform optimization is a crucial aspect of getting ...
