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Can you break down the meaning of this photography printing process/medium?

Asked by BronxLens (1539points) February 26th, 2009
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Read this as the description of the materials/process for printing a photograph: “Pigment print on Baraya gloss chine-collé on Lanaquarelle”. I see that Lanaquarelle is a watercolor paper; chine-collé is a printing method but can’t find anything on Baraya gloss. Also, do you know of any commercial printers in NYC who can print this way? Can this be also done with a printer at home?

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frigate1985's avatar

Oh boy, sure beats me :( sure it’s not on wiki? I usually am lucky enough to INS what I’m looking for on there…try the traditional dictionaries, google, ask.com, etc etc though I’m sure u have tried those before…

fireinthepriory's avatar

Well it looks like Baraya is a town in Columbia… Maybe it’s a glossy paper that is from Baraya. I would interpret this as an inkjet print that was done on really thin paper (the glossy stuff from Baraya) stuck to the heavier Lanaquarelle paper (thin paper stuck to thick paper so you can print on it is what’s meant by “chine-collé”). I mean, with a lot of prep work you could totally do this at home, but it’d be a process, that’s for sure. Of course I bet it’d cost you a pretty penny to get it done at a printer, though. If you can find one who knows that you’re talking about!

TitsMcGhee's avatar

The fact that it is a pigment print on Baraya gloss makes me think that the gloss is the type of paper (the ground) the print is on. Gloss is a shortened version of glossy paper. I wouldn’t be looking for photography printers, but screenprinters and printmakers instead.

Harp's avatar

Chine-collé as a printing process only makes sense in the context of intaglio printing, where you want the thinner paper to press down into the recesses of the plate. “Pigment print” referring to a photograph, typically means an ink-jet print using pigment-based inks, but that’s not an intaglio process. “Baraya gloss” is presumably the thinner paper used for the collé, and the watercolor paper must be the substrate that it’s glued onto.

So my guess is that the artist prepared a surface by laminating the Baraya gloss to the watercolor paper using the chine-collé process, perhaps introducing texture and/or a printed image at the same time by using an engraved plate. That prepared surface could then have been used as the support for the pigment printed image.

Alternatively, if the image looks like a collage, the image may have been first pigment printed on the Baraya gloss, then assembled onto the watercolor paper using the chine-collé process, i.e. pasted up and run through a press..

fireside's avatar

I don’t think any home printer can handle tissue paper.
But if you were using some type of fine linen you might find a good printer for that purpose.

The next step is to bond it with the heavier paper, so that would require special equipment.
But I don’t want to say much because I am waiting to read Harp’s post.
oh, there it is

BronxLens's avatar

FYI – As I recall, this was about a print made by (for?) Chuck Close. Maybe I’ll go ask him directly…

frigate1985's avatar

I wonder where you saw this text…

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