{"id":481,"date":"2024-04-03T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:03:09","slug":"joseph-papin-printing-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/joseph-papin-printing-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Papin Printing Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 50s to the 90s were marked by a revolution in printing &#8211; from &#8220;hot type&#8221; using molten lead and photoengraving to &#8220;cold type&#8221; using computers. I found a box of printing plates of some of my father&#8217;s drawings in his studio and was intrigued with learning how they were used.&nbsp;<br><br>The printing plate below is a photoengraved zinc plate mounted on wood. Joseph Papin drew it in 1971 for an event sponsored by the Daily News &#8211; the All City High School Chorus and Orchestra at Philharmonic Hall.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.45.49-PM-787x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.45.49-PM-787x1024.png 787w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.45.49-PM-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.45.49-PM-768x1000.png 768w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.45.49-PM.png 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The following is a quick introduction to photoengraving; tomorrow I will go through the complete process:<br><br>&#8220;Photoengraving is a process that uses a light-sensitive photoresist applied to the surface to be engraved to create a mask that protects some areas during a subsequent operation which etches, dissolves, or otherwise removes some or all of the material from the unshielded areas of a substrate. Normally applied to metal, it can also be used on glass, plastic and other materials\u201d (wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photoengraving).<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.53.23-PM-762x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.53.23-PM-762x1024.png 762w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.53.23-PM-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.53.23-PM-768x1033.png 768w, https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-11.53.23-PM.png 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50s to the 90s were marked by a revolution in printing &#8211; from &#8220;hot type&#8221; using molten lead and photoengraving to &#8220;cold type&#8221; using computers. I found a box of printing plates of some of my father&#8217;s drawings in his studio and was intrigued with learning how they were used.&nbsp; The printing plate below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,42],"tags":[82,31,36,9,15,14,81,78,80],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-daily-news","category-printing-processes","tag-all-city-high-school-chorus-orchestra","tag-daily-news","tag-joe-papin","tag-joseph-papin","tag-new-york-city","tag-on-the-scene-drawing","tag-philharmonic-hall","tag-photoengraving","tag-relief-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephpapin.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}