Title
Photopolymer plate for the Spring 1997 issue of the Quarterly News-Letter of The Book Club of California.
QuarkXPress for Macintosh.
QuarkXPress for Macintosh.
Coverage
Denver, CO:
Publisher
Quark, Inc.,
Date
1986–1993.
Subject
Gift of Peter Koch.
Description
These photopolymer plates are part of a full set composed by the printer Peter Koch in 1997 using the program QuarkXPress on a Macintosh computer. Koch printed the plates on a 1960s Heidelberg KSBA 18 by 23 in. cylinder press. Photopolymer plates first came into use in 1974. The new technology harnessed light-sensitive plastics, or photopolymers, for preparing letterpress, offset, and flexographic printing plates. Initially developed for large-scale industrial printing, photopolymer plates began to be used by fine and private press printers with the rise of desktop publishing.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School