Article · Black Sheep Productions
How To Develop Photo Polymer Plates
By Black Sheep Productions
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2009
About this lesson
A six-step hands-on guide to developing photopolymer letterpress plates at home: preparing an inverted transparency, exposing it in the dark, washing out and drying the plate, with practical timing cues for each stage.
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