Historical information
This collection of 17 photos was most likely taken in Lithographic Squadron, Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo, c1970s. Although these photos are not annotated most personnel are positively identified. Some photos are cropped enlargements of previous photos. See item 6060.8P for more information and photos of platemaking. There is more information on the Ultra-MAN-III, Komoni and Planeta Printing Presses on pages 71 and 120 of Valerie Lovejoy’s book 'Mapmakers of Fortuna – A history of the Army Survey Regiment’ ISBN: 0-646-42120-4. For additional photos, refer to item 6062.4P for the Heidelberg press, item 6063.5P for the Komori press, item 6064.9P for the Planeta press and item 6065.10P for Ultra-MAN-III presses. In photos .11P to .14P the technician is applying a UV-sensitive pigmented dye emulating one of the map print colours to a white opaque polyester sheet mounted on a rotating table in a whirler. .12P and .14P are enlargements of previous photos. See item 6059.4P for more information and photos on the map proof making process. The Krause Wohlenberg operated by George Austen in photo .17P was a heavy-duty guillotine to trim bulk printed map stock in the c1970s and c1980s. See item 6069.6P for more information and photos of guillotine equipment.
Physical description
This is a set of 17 photographs of Print Troop personnel and equipment from Lithographic Squadron at the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo, c1970s. The photographs were printed on photographic paper and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The photographs were scanned at 300 dpi.
.1) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Preparing printing plate, SGT Alvan Howard.
.2) to.3) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Preparing printing plate, unidentified technician.
.4) - Photo, black & white, 1979, Planeta Polygraph Printing Press., L to R: SPR Peter Breukel, CPL Lance Strudwick.
.5) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Press.
.6) and .7) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Press, unidentified technician.
.8) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Newkoni Komori Printing Press, unidentified technician.
.9) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Original Heidelberg Printing Press, unidentified technician.
.10) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, MANN flatbed proof press, unidentified technician.
.11) to .14) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, applying dye to a whirl-on proof, unidentified technician.
.15) and .16) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, applying diazo coat to a scribe sheet, CPL Colin Hardisty.
.17) - Photo, black & white, c1970s, Krause Wohlenberg heavy-duty paper guillotine, George Austen.
Inscriptions & markings
No personnel are annotated.
.2P annotated ‘completed development on a negative working plate.’
.3P annotated ‘a wipe-on plate.’
.4P annotated ‘1979’.
.12P annotated ‘Re-coating a proof with the next wanted colour on the vertical whirler.’
.13P annotated ‘has hardened (retained) area required. Done on a vertical whirler.’
.15P and .16P annotated ‘Preparing a sheet of scribe material with a Diazo (light sensitive) coating.’
