GRAVURE COLOPHON · THE PRODUCTION RECORD

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The production record

Every magazine keeps a page that tells the truth about how it was made. This is ours, for the whole edition to date, counted from the collections themselves at build time.

Edition
Gravure, issues 01-03, complete to date
Printed folios
312 pages across three issues
Pieces
10, by 6 contributors
Plates
24 originals, drawn from 12 subjects, no photography
Process
Rotogravure register: drawn line work, photocopy warp, plate mottle, halftone screen, film grain
Screen
133 lpi (issues 01-02), 150 lpi (issue 03), dot angle 23 degrees
Inks
Carbon black + process blue. The blue never draws; it registers
Stock
Uncoated, 115 gsm text, 300 gsm cover, off white
Faces
Spectral, 200 to 600, roman and italic; Space Mono for every label, folio, and caption
Setting
Astro content collections; issues, articles, and authors as one typed graph
Impression
Static output only. Client JavaScript shipped: none

Per issue

  • GRV·01 The Hum, spring 2025. 96 pages, 3 pieces. Carbon black + process blue, 133 lpi.
  • GRV·02 Back of House, autumn 2025. 104 pages, 3 pieces. Carbon black + process blue, 133 lpi.
  • GRV·03 Golden Night, summer 2026. 112 pages, 4 pieces. Carbon black + process blue, 150 lpi.

Corrections are marked in process blue and carried into the next printing. There has not yet been a next printing.