Barbe (André Barbe, dit) - 1 Original page - Erotique - - - 1998
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ANDRÉ BARBE called Barbe
(1936-2014)
Humor, erotica and comic strip artist
Member of the Humorists Associated
Worked for “Le Rire”, “Pilote”, “Hara Kiri”, Charlie Hebdo
Illustrator of numerous works including the “Cantique des Cantiques” (La Musardine), “Don Juan, Mozart, Da Ponte, full text of the opera” (La Découverte), Ed. Glenat, Albin-Michel, etc.
This rhodoid is a unique piece. It comprises 6 strips of rhodoid taped onto a sheet of the same material in view of final exposure (see below the technical aspect). Suggestion: before framing, one can peel these strips off and tape them onto a glass plate and place everything on a colored background for a beautiful decorative effect (see photo example).
The rhodoid will be carefully packaged.
In offset printing, the rhodoid (or transparent acetate/polyester film) historically referred to the transparent sheet that served as an intermediate support for transferring the image before the final engraving of the printing plates.
In the jargon of printers from the era of traditional prepress (before digital), people often spoke of the “film” or the “rhodoid.”
Here are its two major historical and technical functions:
1. Assembly and exposure of the plates (Traditional Era)
Before the arrival of today’s digital technologies, creating an offset printing plate involved a step of manual assembly:
* The negative or positive film: Texts and images were first flashed onto transparent films (often wrongly called rhodoids).
* The assembly: The prepress operator would assemble and tape these transparent films onto a stable transparent support (astralon) to compose the final page.
* The exposure: This transparent assembly was pressed against the photo-sensitive offset plate in an exposure frame. Ultraviolet light passed through the transparent areas of the “rhodoid” to fix the image on the metal plate.
2. Color control and registration (The “Blue” or Cromalin)
Since offset printing relies on the superposition of several colors (the four-color process: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), the rhodoid played a crucial verification role:
* Each color had its own transparent film.
* By overlaying the different rhodoids on top of one another by means of transparency, the printer could check the registration (whether elements were correctly aligned) and get an preview of the final appearance before starting the machines.
What has changed today: The CTP (Computer to Plate)
Today, the use of rhodoid in offset printing has almost completely disappeared in favor of CTP technology.
ANDRÉ BARBE called Barbe
(1936-2014)
Humor, erotica and comic strip artist
Member of the Humorists Associated
Worked for “Le Rire”, “Pilote”, “Hara Kiri”, Charlie Hebdo
Illustrator of numerous works including the “Cantique des Cantiques” (La Musardine), “Don Juan, Mozart, Da Ponte, full text of the opera” (La Découverte), Ed. Glenat, Albin-Michel, etc.
This rhodoid is a unique piece. It comprises 6 strips of rhodoid taped onto a sheet of the same material in view of final exposure (see below the technical aspect). Suggestion: before framing, one can peel these strips off and tape them onto a glass plate and place everything on a colored background for a beautiful decorative effect (see photo example).
The rhodoid will be carefully packaged.
In offset printing, the rhodoid (or transparent acetate/polyester film) historically referred to the transparent sheet that served as an intermediate support for transferring the image before the final engraving of the printing plates.
In the jargon of printers from the era of traditional prepress (before digital), people often spoke of the “film” or the “rhodoid.”
Here are its two major historical and technical functions:
1. Assembly and exposure of the plates (Traditional Era)
Before the arrival of today’s digital technologies, creating an offset printing plate involved a step of manual assembly:
* The negative or positive film: Texts and images were first flashed onto transparent films (often wrongly called rhodoids).
* The assembly: The prepress operator would assemble and tape these transparent films onto a stable transparent support (astralon) to compose the final page.
* The exposure: This transparent assembly was pressed against the photo-sensitive offset plate in an exposure frame. Ultraviolet light passed through the transparent areas of the “rhodoid” to fix the image on the metal plate.
2. Color control and registration (The “Blue” or Cromalin)
Since offset printing relies on the superposition of several colors (the four-color process: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), the rhodoid played a crucial verification role:
* Each color had its own transparent film.
* By overlaying the different rhodoids on top of one another by means of transparency, the printer could check the registration (whether elements were correctly aligned) and get an preview of the final appearance before starting the machines.
What has changed today: The CTP (Computer to Plate)
Today, the use of rhodoid in offset printing has almost completely disappeared in favor of CTP technology.
Details
Item
Original page
Number of objects
1
Series
Erotique
Condition
Good condition
Artist
Barbe (André Barbe, dit)
Title of artwork
-
Year
1998
Width
60 cm
Height
40 cm
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