Color Intaglio Printing Reinvented
by Keith Howard
The process outlined here allows for full color or CMYK based prints to be made with full and faithful rendering of color from autographic, painterly or photographic artwork.
CMYK separations from RGB color files were produced in Adobe Photoshop, and then individual yellow, blue, red, and black plates were made and printed (registered upside down) in sequence using the newly developed
Akua Intaglio colors. These soft inks are particularly suitable for the requirements of the Intaglio Type medium of printmaking invented by Keith Howard.
Remarkably, the Intaglio Type medium is a new form of printing invented by an artist, for artists, rather than a commercial or industrial printing method adapted for artist’s use, as is Keith Howard developed and perfected a new, revolutionary approach to full color intaglio printing in 2006. This page shows a documentation
of this research at RIT, NY, with Keith Howard and a team of grad students using dry-photopolymer films mounted on clear plastic as the printing substrate.
Storm over Katrina, 2006
4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
The new method can be used both for photographic color images, as well as for painterly and line-based approaches, or other forms of direct mark-making, using hand made color separations on drafting mylar or clear film.
As shown in the examples, the method offers extraordinary creative possibilities that expand and go beyond what was possible in etching/intaglio methodology, previously, and the full potential of this invention within reproductive contemporary art practice is as yet untapped.
Medical Alert, 2006
4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
Keith Howard’s new full color photopolymer process involves the use of digital halftones made on an inkjet printer, thin transparent PETG plates that serve as the matrix for ImagOn film, and crucially, a new method of registering plates through the inverse placement of the plate on the press bed. The
fact that the plates are transparent allows for the perfect sequential alignment that is required by a multi-plate project in full color. The result is a stunning new intaglio aesthetic.
Art Therapy, 2006
4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
Now in the News, 2006, 4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
Keith Howard, Munch’s Scream Missing, 2006
4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
Aftermath, 2006, 4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
Wilma, 2006, 4 Colour Intaglio Type 32 x 48 inch (hand
printed with 8 plates)
T H E P R O C E S S
a visual guide in slides
Karrie Swanson and a team of RIT grad
students collaboratively printing sets of full
color intaglio type prints (plate inversion
method)
NEW METHOD
Keith Howard’s new “upside-down” method of
printing transparent plates using waterbased
ink, allows for perfectly registered full color
intaglio prints
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