NEW PRINTING PROCESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 14, 15 January 1913, Page 8

NEW PRINTING PROCESS.

SYDNEY MAN’S INVENTION

An interesting display of colour prints, produced by a new pliotochromo process, the invention of Mr H. Stephan, of Sydney, forms perhaps the most interesting part of an exhibition recently held of oil and other paintings in that city. The Daily Telegraph writes:—Mr Stephan claims to have improved upon anything previously known in the printing world, and the samples he has on view suggest great commercial and artistic possibilities. By a photographic process, Mr Stephan is able to faithfully reproduce, with the assistance of the printing machine, anything that can be held in front of the camera long enough for three exposures, two of them occupying from 7 to 10 minutes, to be made, and the manner of this reproduction is claimed to be so simple and yet so absolutely true to every point of detail that the finished print can bo placed on the market at a cost several times below that by which any similar colour print can be produced under any system at present. Mr Stephan has

obtained world patents for his invention, a fact which in itself is of considerable significance, for in Germany, where the rest of the world may learn much in the matter of high-grade printing, such a patent would have to show substantial novelty before receiving protective rights. On the

face of it, Mr Sephan has evolved a process far in advance of anything hitherto accomplished, and the exhibits he has on view in George Street, which only touch the fringe of what such an invention, when commercially applied, is capable, are of very great interest on this account. He has copied in perfect detail and colour a bank note originally issued as impossible of imitation ; lie has delightful prints of Japanese art; he has copies of plumaged bird pictures, and copies of other art colourings, all of which tend to corroborate the case he makes out for the almost absolute infallibility of the process which he has perfected, and is now placing upon the market.