NEW PRINTING PROCESS.

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 2

NEW PRINTING PROCESS.

SYDNEY MAN’S INVENTION. An interesting display of color prints, produced by a new photo-chromo process, the invention of Mr H. Stephan, of Sydney, forms perhaps tho 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 m 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 tc be so simple and yet so absolutely true to every point of detail that the finished print can be placed on the market at a cost several times below that by which any similar color print can be produced under any system at present. Mr Stephan has attained world patents for his invention, a fact which in itself ia of iwisiderable significance, for in Germany, where the rest of the world may learn much in the matter of high-grads printing, such t, patent would have tc show substantial novelty before receiving protective tights. On the face of it, Mr Stephan has evolved a process far in advance of anything hitherto accomplished, and the exhibits ha has on view in George street, which onltf 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 color a bank-note originally issued as impossible of imitation; he has delightful prints of Japanese art; he has copies of plumaged bird pictures, and copies of other art colorings, 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.