Ink Print Technique?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/visioluxus/168219.html

 

Any attempt I've made to search online for the term "ink print" is

severely hampered by the fact that, you know, printers use ink. Can

anyone tell me how to achieve this style or a book that teach me?

Have you tried emailing the person directly? I guess you could try inking an old negative

and playing with it...

Bromoil is an ink print process, more or less, and there's a gumoil as well; both can be used with oil based printer's inks or artist's colors. Gumoil is simpler and cheaper: hand coated with sensitized gum arabic or other vegetable gum, which hardens when exposed to light, so as to wash away preferentially in the unexposed regions, which then accept color while the gum resists -- if I've understood this correctly, it's a direct positive process; that is, you would need to contact print from a positive transparency.

 

Lots of information available if you search for "bromoil" or "gumoil" or "gum bichromate" -- the difference between a gum bichromate and gumoil is that the gum is pigmented in the bichromate process, and produces a negative (the exposed gum stays, so the pigment stays in exposed areas), while gumoil uses the exposed gum as as resist and produces a positive. Gum bichromate, aka gum printing or color gum, is also used to produce tricolor prints starting from separation negatives by printing multiple layers with different pigments; this doesn't work as well with gumoil because previous layers will continue to resist the ink.

Greetings,

 

I'm not 100% sure of the spelling, but you may want to try searching for itaglio. I saw a demonstration of the process a couple of years ago and it uses a press and ink.

 

Regards, Pete

Hi Amul

Are you actually wanting to use an ink printing process, or just reverse the negatives, so that you have a full size negative print, rather than a possitive?

Jo

If you click on the right pointing green triangle ("next entry") button, you'll go to the next page of images. Scroll down to the comments section, and you'll see an explanation of how it does it.

I just bumped into this,while searching for something else-

 

 

http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_oilprint.html