Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
Bob - I doubt these are Evercolor prints, but carbon prints from fresh batches of
pigmented gelatin. Evercolor was based upon an Agfa proofing material made in very
large batches. The exposure method was halftone. You ended up with something which
looked like a poster but was quite expensive. I have some samples stored somewhere.
Sandy King, a member of this forum, has started another forum dedicated to carbon
printing, though the content is still seemingly cenetered around b&W. Carbon printing
is probably the oldest form of color printing, though there have been numerous modern
tweaks to it. To my knowledge, all the commercial versions of the process have gone
bust. There are technical, financial, and esthetic reasons for this failure.
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