Polyautography

Polyautography refers to a printing technique in which the individual prints retain their individual character and are regarded as originals . Alois Senefelder , the inventor of lithography , described his lithographic prints as polyautographs with a claim to originality.

technology

In the manufacture of lithographic sheets today an autographic drawing a picture work on transfer paper created that in printing on an uncoated offset plate transfer-printed is. Since the motif is not photocopied in this way, the originality of the individual print is retained, even if an entire edition is printed.

Thanks to the technique of transfer printing, the artist saves himself the laborious reverse work on the litho stone.

Al Bernstein , artist and inventor of pigmentography , calls his hand-printed pigmentographies monotypic polyautographs .