Plate, placard or posters?

What makes our reproductions unique is not only that they have been selected with great care and lovingly restored from the originals before being printed. Or that Robert often spent a lot of time and care on producing documents and fact sheets, with translations from the texts of the original works. A print from us is something very special. Both in the choice of printing technology and paper.

We usually say that we don't sell posters, while we sometimes use words like plate or placard - isn't that the same thing? No actually not.

The difference between a poster and a plate is perhaps the simplest. A plate is a work that informs while it can be decorative. A poster is only decorative.

So isn't a map or a ship blueprint decorative? Absolutely. But background information and facts are usually included. In addition, there are further definitional differences. Mainly in terms of quality.

A poster can maintain very good quality. In some cases, they are also printed in small editions, just like any art print. They can also use very high quality paper. A good poster should be printed on a so-called fine art paper to feel reasonably exclusive. Otherwise, the risk is that it will mostly look like a poster from a magazine or for those of us who still remember the posters you could browse through in stores - nice, but on a paper that was mostly glossy and which was usually put up on the wall with staples. Most posters today are digitally printed, i.e. printed. And the vast majority are printed when ordered. So print on demand. The edition is infinite, and in the worst case, the original image is adapted to the paper size. Which means that proportions or cuts can differ from size to size.

A plate makes the whole thing a bit more fuzzy. From the beginning, a planchette was an image that was pasted into another work, preferably of folio size. In these works, the images were the preservation itself, and panel works were made with large expandable images in formats that had previously been impossible to obtain. Today we don't talk so much about plates in that term, but today it is considered a synonym for posters. It makes it extra fuzzy, because some of the motifs we have are reproductions from actual plate works. So even though we don't sell posters, but art prints, we actually have both placates and reproductions of plate works in our range.

Our prints are available in limited editions, sometimes as few as 1 copy, sometimes around fifty. And each reproduction is carefully produced using the printing technique that best suited the subject and the paper on which the subject was printed.

None of our designs can be ordered in any other size, or printed on demand. They are printed, sometimes with letterpress or gravure printing (that is, with a plate) on archival-resistant paper that can be hand-colored. For example, handmade paper from Lessebo.

And did you know that some of our prints are approaching 70 years old, the oldest was printed in 1956. So soon antique reproductions of antique originals. Quite unique we think.
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