Colours fade alright, I've been on the recieving end of a faded poster,
not pretty.
But if these red posters have faded, hasn't everything else on the
poster faded as well? My faded poster (only worth $10 or so), is nothing
like it's non faded friend. A shadow of its former self, if you like.
Natalie
Alan Adler wrote:
>
> Yes - colors do fade.
> But I am looking at two identical - Mint - never exposed Vertigo 1
> sheets -
> both same shade of reddish orange.
> alan
>
> On Mar 24, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Todd Feiertag wrote:
>
> > Danny,
> >
> > There wasn't a problem with the red-orange printing of the posters.
> > The
> > problem was with the exposure of the posters to the sun and light
> > afterwards. Red and orange are about the first colors to fade when
> > exposed
> > to light and do fade pretty easily. The reason you're seeing such an
> > inconsistency with the color of Vertigo posters and lobby cards is
> > because
> > the lighter ones are are faded.
> > Todd Feiertag/Poster City
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Danny Steward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:56 PM
> > Subject: [MOPO] Vertigo Posters
> >
> >
> >> I have restored 6 VERTIGO one sheets and three have been slightly
> > different
> >> in the orange screen color. One was very red-orange. I have found
> >> the
> > flat
> >> orange color to be inconsistent on the rest of the the paper as well
> >> including lobby cards. The one sheets seem to be printed on the
> >> cheapest
> >> paper and I would suppose the printing process was a major pain.
> >> Remember
> >> the cheapest materials were used and the Saul Bass design was not
> >> easy to
> >> reproduce. The flat coverage of that off orange color must have
> >> driven
> > the
> >> printers mad. I would guess the orange color had to be mixed and was
> >> not
> > an
> >> ordinary color gallon bucket. I sometimes feel like an archeologist
> > wishing
> >> I could have been there in 1958 watching how these posters were
> >> printed.
> >>
> >> Danny Steward / Seattle
> >>
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