Commissioned projects

Would you like me to create a photogravure based on your own image?

Please get in touch with me and we can discuss how to bring your project to life. I will create a printing plate from your design and use oil-based ink on an etching press to print the desired number of prints on Hahnemühle copperplate paper. I can produce both digital and analogue images as photogravures for you.

A commissioned project is divided into the following stages:

1. Vorbereitung und Beschichtung der Kupferplatte und der Probeplatte mit dem lichtempfindlichen Photopolymerfilm.
2. Editing your image in Photoshop and producing a test print of your image on a transparent polyester film for contact exposure with the printing plate.
3. Test exposure of the printing plate under vacuum in a UV contact exposure unit using an aquatint screen for the black areas, followed by exposure of the printing plate with your image. The exposed test plate is then developed in a soda bath; it is rinsed and the photopolymer layer is cured in a vinegar bath.
4. Moistening the intaglio paper, applying Charbonnel intaglio oil paint to the proofing plate, wiping the proofing plate with a wiping cloth, printing the proof on the etching press.
5. Review of the proof.
6. Editing of the image file in Photoshop and final printing of your image onto a transparent polyester film for contact exposure using the printing plate.
7. as in point 3: exposure and development of the final printing plate.
8. as in point 4: printing of the first final proof on the etching press.
9. Repeat step 8 for further prints.

The smallest copper plate measures 15 x 22.5 cm and is printed on Hahnemühle paper in the size 28.5 x 38 cm. The largest copper plate measures 40 x 60 cm. The price for a photogravure starts at €285.00 for one print from the 15 x 22.5 cm plate. Each additional print from the same plate (15 x 22.5 cm) costs €38.00. Prices are tiered depending on the size of the copperplate and the number of prints. I would be happy to provide you with a non-binding quote.