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Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2014 
 
 https://archive.org/details/photoengravingcoOOphot 
 
The Photo-Engraving Company. 
 
 WHEN, in 1872, this company first commenced business, and started the process 
 of photo-engraving in this country, the most visionary dreamers could not 
 have foreseen the great developments of the illustrative arts which have followed 
 the continual experiments we have engaged in. The large amount of money 
 spent and the untiring efforts to produce the finest and most practical results 
 attainable, have resulted in placing us at the head of the illustrators of the world, 
 and we to-day can produce the best results in all branches of photo-relief plate 
 engraving on this or any other continent. 
 
 Many imitators have sprung up and sailed in our wake, under names so 
 closely resembling our own that many would-be customers of ours have received 
 inferior productions which, in no sense, represented the art of photo-engraving, 
 as it existed in its best phases, and have consequently considered the method crude 
 and too imperfect for general practical use. To all such we can offer a process 
 which is a perfect substitute for wood engraving, inasmuch as our plates closely 
 
resemble the hand-work, can be printed on any ordinary printing-press in connection 
 with type, and can be electrotyped in the usual manner, the cost being, in most 
 cases, from 33 1 3 to 50 per cent. less. This pamphlet contains a few specimens of 
 our later work, and we confidently offer them to close inspection, knowing that the 
 high grade of excellence shown will convince the most critical of the superiority 
 of our methods. 
 
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 For the information of many of onr customers, who have often asked the ques- 
 tion, and the guidance of those who do not understand the necessities of our process, 
 we give this little sketch of our method of procedure. In the first place it is neces- 
 sary that the copy for our use be in clean black lines or stipple on white or slightly 
 tinted paper, and the copy may be either a pen or crayon drawing, a wood-cut, steel 
 
 or lithographic print, all of 
 produced directly without 
 are not suited to this 
 by the half-tone process 
 this pamphlet). When these 
 plied with all is ready for 
 which is the making of 
 pinned to a board which is 
 and a glass negative is made 
 
 which can readily be re- 
 redrawing (drawings in wash 
 process, but can be made 
 described in another part of 
 conditions have been com- 
 the first step in the process, 
 the negative. The copy is 
 set in front of the camera, 
 in the usual manner and 
 
 intensified so that the lines or stipples of the copy stand out clear and sharp. The 
 negative is then placed in a printing frame over a chemical substance which has 
 
been made sensitive to the action of light, and is then 
 sun or electric light, either 
 pose, until the picture of the 
 on the prepared substance, 
 manipulated in a manner 
 it becomes a mould from 
 be readily made. This cast 
 ing department and a plate 
 it in the usual manner, 
 not entirely perfect, and is 
 engraver who has, in most instances, served his time 
 imperfections are carefully 
 mounted on wood or metal, 
 desire of the customer, and 
 trotypes may be made in the 
 
 exposed to the rays of the 
 of which serves our pur- 
 negative is clearly printed 
 This preparation is then 
 peculiar to ourselves, until 
 which a plaster cast can 
 is placed in our stereotyp- 
 of type metal is made from 
 This plate of course is 
 taken in hand by a skillful 
 
 as a wood engraver. The 
 remedied, and the plate is 
 according to the expressed 
 is ready for the press. Elec- 
 usual manner. 
 
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