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Printing reagents, in Didcot, Oxfordshire
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Printer inks, in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
Shot with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.8D lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
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A fine trade publication issued by the German colour ink manufacturers Gebr. Hartmann of Ammendorf - Chemische Fabrik Halle-Ammendorf, Druckfarbenfabrike, who were based in Ammendorf bei Halle, Saale. The publication, that is not dated but appears to be an edition from around 1930, gives detailed information on the company's products and the various specialist inks for numerous printing processes along with many illustrations as examples. It is entitled "Vom Drucken und von Druckfarben" - "Of printing and printing inks".
Running to over 250 pages this was obviously seen both as a publicity tool as well as a technical handbook. It is, needless to say, very professionally designed and produced and although the printer is not mentioned the typographical and graphic designer responsible for the book's layout is : W Biering of Frankfurt a. Main.
One of the colour charts included in the book is this rainbow of colours entitled;
"Unsere preiswerten, lichtechten Heliochrom Farben" or "Our inexpensive, lightfast Heliochrome colours".
"Regulars" will know that I am very fond of the woodcuts by Jogn Greenwood who seems to have mostly been active during the inter-war years and most of whose works are of Pennine landscapes around his West Yorkshire home. Many are of Wharfedale where I now live and so these are often evocative of local lanes.
This - "Silent Noon" - appears in the 1935 Penroses Annual as one of the year's representative samples of work and it was reproduced by students at the College of Arts & Crafts in Bradford, the city where the Annual was printed at Lund Humphries's County Press. The woodcut looks 'odd' in that it is printed on a sepia glassine paper, probably to show student dexterity and skill in printing on such a medium, but it makes reproduction difficult. Nevertheless it is a very Yorkshire Dales landscape.
A fine trade publication issued by the German colour ink manufacturers Gebr. Hartmann of Ammendorf - Chemische Fabrik Halle-Ammendorf, Druckfarbenfabrike, who were based in Ammendorf bei Halle, Saale. The publication, that is not dated but appears to be an edition from around 1930, gives detailed information on the company's products and the various specialist inks for numerous printing processes along with many illustrations as examples. It is entitled "Vom Drucken und von Druckfarben" - "Of printing and printing inks".
Running to over 250 pages this was obviously seen both as a publicity tool as well as a technical handbook. It is, needless to say, very professionally designed and produced and although the printer is not mentioned the typographical and graphic designer responsible for the book's layout is : W Biering of Frankfurt a. Main. The cover has a striking trade 'logo' or devices and some fine lettering.
A wonderful, tipped in advert from the inner back cover of the March 1925 edition of the German book, publishing & print industry magazine the "Deutscher Buch - und Steindrucker". This is for the bronze ink manufacturers Carl Eckar of Fürth in Bayern.
It certainly illustrates the high quality metallic inks they produced in what looks to be a packet mock-up using gold and brown, for Mokka and Pralinen, that carries the inscription "Kunstanstalt Krugmann", the Krugmann Art Institute and this was, I'm sure, the printing company who produced this sheet. They appear to have been founded in 1913 and lasted just short of a century before closing in the early 2000s and the works demolished.
A designer is shown - Körner and 1924 - and as noted by Florian below this is by Max Körner.
To show off the technical and price advantages of using Paramat's 'Paracut' rubber printing mats for lithographic printing the company reproduced this colourful poster for Hadfield's "He-O-Lin" paints in The British Printer, May 1934. It is a reproduction of an "actual job" and used standard inks manufactured, in this case, by A B Fleming & Co Ltd of Caroline Park, Edinburgh.
Hadfield's were based in Merton, south London, and although in existance as a varnish manufacturer from possibly as early as 1840, in 1917 they purchased from the Government the works of Charles Blume's that was wound up under the Trading with the Enemy Act. They merged in 1969 they merged with Bestobell and subsequently the works were closed.
A rather fine example of the use of gold and silver bronze metallic inks manufactured by the German company of Chr. Hostmann-Steinberg at Celle, Hannover, c1925. The 'Japanese Girl' plate was designed by Jan Schmidt. As you can see the bronze/'Rich Gold' has taken on the impression of the text from the opposite page - the silver/aluminium has proved more stable.
The advert includes the agents or representatives of the company in the UK based in both London and Manchester.
A fine trade publication issued by the German colour ink manufacturers Gebr. Hartmann of Ammendorf - Chemische Fabrik Halle-Ammendorf, Druckfarbenfabrike, who were based in Ammendorf bei Halle, Saale. The publication, that is not dated but appears to be an edition from around 1930, gives detailed information on the company's products and the various specialist inks for numerous printing processes along with many illustrations as examples. It is entitled "Vom Drucken und von Druckfarben" - "Of printing and printing inks".
Running to over 250 pages this was obviously seen both as a publicity tool as well as a technical handbook. It is, needless to say, very professionally designed and produced and although the printer is not mentioned the typographical and graphic designer responsible for the book's layout is : W Biering of Frankfurt a. Main.
The book contains the following injunction as foreword:
"Froher mut, ernstes streben, sollen deinem leben die richtung geben. Glück Zu!"
loosely translated as
"Joyful courage, serious striving, should give your life the direction. Luck too!"
One of the many ink makers who supplied the printing trade Lorrilleux and Bolton were based in Tottenham, North London. This 1931 advert, unusually on black card covers for a special supplement of the London Mercury, is for their Matinx range. I suspect the Mat refers to rubber mat printing as the artwork is much like the style used, for example, for the Batsford book jackets by Brian Cook.
A fine trade publication issued by the German colour ink manufacturers Gebr. Hartmann of Ammendorf - Chemische Fabrik Halle-Ammendorf, Druckfarbenfabrike, who were based in Ammendorf bei Halle, Saale. The publication, that is not dated but appears to be an edition from around 1930, gives detailed information on the company's products and the various specialist inks for numerous printing processes along with many illustrations as examples. It is entitled "Vom Drucken und von Druckfarben" - "Of printing and printing inks".
Running to over 250 pages this was obviously seen both as a publicity tool as well as a technical handbook. It is, needless to say, very professionally designed and produced and although the printer is not mentioned the typographical and graphic designer responsible for the book's layout is : W Biering of Frankfurt a. Main.
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The smooth surface of fresh printing ink in some cans goes hard but remains smooth and shiny, while other types develop an intricate wrinkly pattern like this. Presumably, it expands as it dries. It's almost a pity to break it.
from the January 1936 issue of "Advertising Display & Press Publicity" magazine published by Buisness Publications Ltd. of London. The issue has an article on the introduction of the newly developed 'Monastral Blue' pigment developed and produced by the then giant ICI company - Imperical Chemical Industries. The company had been formed in 1926 by way of a merger of four of the UK's major chemical companies to attempt to stave off foreign competition that was seen to be aided by fragmentation in the UK industry. Monastral Blue was a major development in blue pigments being more 'fast' and stable. I recall the colour as it was used to describe the almost black colour used on the livery of Birmingham City Transport's buses; there must have been a lot of Monastral Blue in that shade to get it so deep.
Monastral Blue was used as a colour in printing ink and indeed as the advert shows the Mona Blue colour produced by ink manufacturer's Lorrilleux & Bolton Ltd. was used as the highlight colour throughout this issue of the magazine including the cover, by G R Morris, and L&B's own advert by Bernard Venables.
An advert for the printing ink manufacturers Gebr. Hartmann, Druckfarbenfabriken of Ammendorf bei Halle, Saale, Deutschland and seen in the 1929, second issue, of the Typographische Jahrbücher published in Leipzig.
The advert, roughly translated, notes that "Hartmann's
Illustration, commercial, and book printing inks are top performance" The graphics are strikingly modern and use a bold typeface with the exception of the description of the ink and its price - Kosmisschwarz, 3 RM per kilo - Cosmos Black.
I attached the printed piece to a bag in fact several bags and this is what can be seen inside the bag.
I attached the printed piece to a bag in fact several bags and this is what can be seen inside the bag.
"Lichtecht, Spritecht, Wasserecht, Hochconcentriert, Brillant" - the Spectraltfarben/Spectral Colours of Kast & Ehinger Gmbh of Stuttgart described in a February 1927 advert in Deutscher Drucker. They can be translated as being lightfast, sprightly, water resistant, highly concentrated and brilliant and these claimed qualities are put to the test in this wonderful advert by "Entwurf Propaganda" of Stuttgart.
The company appears to have been formed in around 1865 by Kast who was joined by Ehringer in 1868. The company prospered, being allied with Stuttgart-based company G. Siegle & Co., in the manufacturing of colours and inks with the main works in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Bombed in 1944 much of the main works was reconstructed in the early 1950s and in 1970 they were acquired by BASF. Later forming part of the multi-national Flint company apparently a range of "K+E Inks" is still available.
The Penrose Annuals, produced at the time by Percy Lund Humphries and edited by R. B. Fishenden often include some marvellous examples of contemporary printing and design. In Volume 41, for 1939, are examples of book jackets (or dustwrappers) and this, tipped in, is for the 1937 novel Children of Strangers by the American journalist and novelist Lyle Saxon (1891 - 1946). The book, his only novel, is described as being a "moving story of love in a Cane River community bound by class and race".
It was designed by British artist John Farleigh (1900 - 1965) who was noted for his work in the field of wood engraving. The cover was printed by Hague & Gill of High Wycombe, the printers founded in 1931 by Eric Gill and René Hague, on papers supplied by Spicers Ltd. and using inks by Lorilleaux and Bolton Ltd.
The back cover to Das Plakat for May 1920 and that contains an article on the work of Mayer Lukas. The magazine concludes with this marvellously cool polar bear and ice blue printing inks. It is one of a series of adverts for the Köln based art and poster printing concern of Wilhelm Eisfeller who used the polar bear, possibly a play on the 'Eis' or ice of the name, in many adverts commissioned from a range of designers and artists.
The Penrose Annuals, produced at the time by Percy Lund Humphries and edited by R. B. Fishenden often include some marvellous examples of contemporary printing and design. In Volume 41, for 1939, are examples of book jackets (or dustwrappers) and this, tipped in, is for "There is no return", a novel by Philip Jordan and published in 1938 by The Cresset Press.
The design is from the Lund, Humphries studio and is by M. V. Bennett. It was printed on "Bridgewen" unglazed cartridge paper from Spicers Ltd. and uses Lorilleaux and Bolton Ltd. inks.