CHAPTER XIII. 
PRINTING ON GELATINO-CHLORIDE 
PAPER. 
T N order to bring out to the best advantage all 
details that may be present in a negative, it is 
advisable to use a printing process in which the image 
is as much as possible kept on the surface of the paper, 
and not allowed to sink into the paper itself. The 
platinotype process, which is perhaps the most beautiful 
of all printing processes for ordinary artistic photo¬ 
graphy, is not so well suited to our purpose as such 
processes as “ bromide paper” or “ gelatino-chloride,” 
where the image is confined to a stratum of gelatine on 
the surface of the paper. The old albumen process is 
omitted from this book, because the gelatino-chloride 
process is both handier and better, while the general 
procedure is the same. But for some subjects, where 
fineness of detail and absolute sharpness of definition 
are not essential, the platinotype process will be found 
speedy and exquisite in its results. For the albumen 
and platinotype processes we must refer the reader to 
photographic literature. 
