Barbe (André Barbe, dit) - 1 Original page - Erotique - - - 1998
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Description from the seller
André Barbe, nicknamed Barbe
(1936-2014)
Humor, erotic art and comic strip artist
Member of the Associated Humorists
Worked for “Le Rire”, “Pilote”, “Hara Kiri”, Charlie Hebdo
Illustrator of numerous works including the “Cantique des Cantiques” (La Musardine Ed.), “Don Juan, Mozart, Da Ponte, full text of the opera” (La Découverte Ed.), Ed. Glenat, Albin-Michel, etc.
This rhodoid is a unique piece from my personal collection. It consists of 6 rhodoid strips glued with tape onto a sheet of the same material for final exposure (see below for the technical aspect). Suggestion: before framing, you can detach these strips and tape them onto a glass plate and place everything on a colored background for a beautiful decorative effect (see photo example). Note that the two pink stains on one rhodoid are only light reflections; the document has no defect.
The rhodoid will be carefully packaged.
In offset printing, the Rhodoid (or transparent acetate/polyester film) historically refers 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. Mounting and exposure of the plates (traditional era)
Before the arrival of today’s digital technologies, the creation of an offset printing plate involved a manual assembly step:
* The negative or positive film: The texts and images were first flashed onto transparent films (often mistakenly referred to as rhodoids).
* The mounting: 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 placed against the offset plate (light-sensitive) in an exposure frame. The ultraviolet light passed through the transparent areas of the “rhodoid” to fix the image onto the metal plate.
2. Color control and registration (the “Blue” or Cromalin)
Since offset printing relies on overlaying 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 each other through transparency, the printer could check the registration (whether elements were properly aligned) and get an preview of the final result before starting the machines.
What has changed today: CTP (Computer to Plate)
Today, the use of rhodoid in offset printing has almost completely disappeared in favor of CTP technology (Computer to Plate).
André Barbe, nicknamed Barbe
(1936-2014)
Humor, erotic art and comic strip artist
Member of the Associated Humorists
Worked for “Le Rire”, “Pilote”, “Hara Kiri”, Charlie Hebdo
Illustrator of numerous works including the “Cantique des Cantiques” (La Musardine Ed.), “Don Juan, Mozart, Da Ponte, full text of the opera” (La Découverte Ed.), Ed. Glenat, Albin-Michel, etc.
This rhodoid is a unique piece from my personal collection. It consists of 6 rhodoid strips glued with tape onto a sheet of the same material for final exposure (see below for the technical aspect). Suggestion: before framing, you can detach these strips and tape them onto a glass plate and place everything on a colored background for a beautiful decorative effect (see photo example). Note that the two pink stains on one rhodoid are only light reflections; the document has no defect.
The rhodoid will be carefully packaged.
In offset printing, the Rhodoid (or transparent acetate/polyester film) historically refers 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. Mounting and exposure of the plates (traditional era)
Before the arrival of today’s digital technologies, the creation of an offset printing plate involved a manual assembly step:
* The negative or positive film: The texts and images were first flashed onto transparent films (often mistakenly referred to as rhodoids).
* The mounting: 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 placed against the offset plate (light-sensitive) in an exposure frame. The ultraviolet light passed through the transparent areas of the “rhodoid” to fix the image onto the metal plate.
2. Color control and registration (the “Blue” or Cromalin)
Since offset printing relies on overlaying 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 each other through transparency, the printer could check the registration (whether elements were properly aligned) and get an preview of the final result before starting the machines.
What has changed today: CTP (Computer to Plate)
Today, the use of rhodoid in offset printing has almost completely disappeared in favor of CTP technology (Computer to Plate).
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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