Monobath Processing for Lithographic Film – The Freedman Monobath   What is Photographic Monobath Chemistry? A monobath is a single liquid that chemically processes film. Monobaths are commonly used for continuous tone film and paper. In fact the Polaroid process itself used a viscous...

Before the Internet existed I imagined an automated printing control process to electronically manage the purchase and production of printing. A driving factor for this discovery was that our three generation old family printing business in Philadelphia was taking more and more of my...

  While working with a major digital press manufacturer I noticed that the reported resolution of their digital presses did not seem to match that of the printed sheet.  In a room that included several of the company’s engineers and scientists a debate ensued ending with...

With the advent of dimensional imaging in the Kodak NexPress, color digital printing gained the ability to produce relief images on a variety of substrates. By imaging and fusing a 28 micron high relief image, the NexPress can, for example, print animal skin and wood grain textures on...

I and my partners, Dr. Peter Dundas and Dr. Peter Crean, have invented a new way to measure the acceptability of images and printing equipment. Application of familiar school type “A, B, C” grading scale enables non-specialists to understand technically complex image assessments...