Bernie Fuchs Vintage Official Commemorative Continuous Tone Print Series for the 75th Indianapolis 500

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Second in a series of limited edition lithographs of the official program and collectors series poster artwork of the 75th … Read more Second in a series of limited edition lithographs of the official program and collectors series poster artwork of the 75th running of the indianapolis 500 in 1991. Painted by Bernie Fuchs. Has gold embossed stamp on the bottom with the Indy 500 logo.

This is a very rare poster it also printed by a special printing process, call Continuous Tone printing, which uses no dots.

About the Continuous Tone Printing Process:
Screenless lithography, by eliminating the use of halftone screens and halftone dots achieves extraordinary fidelity, fullness of tone, color and detail, impressive color saturation and clear line resolution. Museums, fine artists and publishers with exacting standards use this remarkable process to re-create their finest works of art. Continuous tone lithography (as in a photograph with no dots) evolved from collotype printing. When Black Box Collotype ultimately closed its doors in 2004, it was one of just a few printers left in the world that had mastered the collotype process. While it was a highly desirable reproduction process for the fine art world, it was a laborious, time consuming (read “expensive”) process. Since there was no screen involved, a collotype print could be 27 colors without fear of a moiré. But in the old days, on Black Box’s one-unit press, those 27 colors had to be laid down one color at a time. So the most complex jobs could take months to complete.

Offset lithography is far faster and less expensive than collotype. Suddenly, four colors and halftone dot patterns were “good enough” because they were so economical. Black Box Collotype was one of the last printing houses in America, if not the world that used the collotype-continuous tone process. See less