DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Algraphy: a substitute for lithography
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0271
Algraphy
limited in quantity. Hitherto the chief source of drawback has made itself felt more and more
the supply of this lithographic stone has been the definitely.
quarries of Solenhofen, in Bavaria, but there have Therefore the invention of an alternative device
been for some time past signs that these quarries which would give equal facilities to the artist, and
will eventually prove unequal to the demands that would preserve the technical character of litho-
are being increasingly made upon them, and that graphy, while it would remove the necessity for
lithography as a process will have to be aban- depending upon the use of lithographic stone itself,
doned for want of the material indispensable could not fail to be of the greatest possible import-
for its existence. Another trouble that has ance. It is claimed that a process which satisfies
always hampered lithographic printers has been all these requirements has been discovered by Mr.
the great weight of the stone itself; and, as the Scholz, of Mayence, who has patented his invention
scale of the work with which they have had to under the name of "Algraphy." As a result of
deal has of late years steadily increased, this exhaustive experiments he has adopted aluminium
as the material best
suited for the print-
ing surface, and he
substitutes plates of
this metal for the
slabs of lithographic
stone. The metal
is so prepared that
it simulates the
granulated texture
of the stone, and it
provides an exceed-
ingly agreeable sur-
face for the artist to
work upon. The
materials required
for drawing upon it
are the same as have
been hitherto used
upon the stone,
lithographic chalk
or ink ; and there is
nothing to hamper
the artist in gaining
his effect, or to pre-
vent him expressing
the widest range of
tones and gradations
from the most deli-
cate greys to the
deepest and most
solid blacks. The
drawing, when com-
pleted, can be
printed with abso-
lute accuracy by
any printer of ave-
rage experience.
What are the
capabilities of the
from an ai graph
by storm van gravesande new process can
244
limited in quantity. Hitherto the chief source of drawback has made itself felt more and more
the supply of this lithographic stone has been the definitely.
quarries of Solenhofen, in Bavaria, but there have Therefore the invention of an alternative device
been for some time past signs that these quarries which would give equal facilities to the artist, and
will eventually prove unequal to the demands that would preserve the technical character of litho-
are being increasingly made upon them, and that graphy, while it would remove the necessity for
lithography as a process will have to be aban- depending upon the use of lithographic stone itself,
doned for want of the material indispensable could not fail to be of the greatest possible import-
for its existence. Another trouble that has ance. It is claimed that a process which satisfies
always hampered lithographic printers has been all these requirements has been discovered by Mr.
the great weight of the stone itself; and, as the Scholz, of Mayence, who has patented his invention
scale of the work with which they have had to under the name of "Algraphy." As a result of
deal has of late years steadily increased, this exhaustive experiments he has adopted aluminium
as the material best
suited for the print-
ing surface, and he
substitutes plates of
this metal for the
slabs of lithographic
stone. The metal
is so prepared that
it simulates the
granulated texture
of the stone, and it
provides an exceed-
ingly agreeable sur-
face for the artist to
work upon. The
materials required
for drawing upon it
are the same as have
been hitherto used
upon the stone,
lithographic chalk
or ink ; and there is
nothing to hamper
the artist in gaining
his effect, or to pre-
vent him expressing
the widest range of
tones and gradations
from the most deli-
cate greys to the
deepest and most
solid blacks. The
drawing, when com-
pleted, can be
printed with abso-
lute accuracy by
any printer of ave-
rage experience.
What are the
capabilities of the
from an ai graph
by storm van gravesande new process can
244