Aquaprint CMYK — Vision Picturale product photograph for alternative photographic printing
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Aquaprint CMYK Box — Watercolour

Aquaprint CMYK: four pigment pouches, VP N°03 Developer and one complimentary PULPØ sheet. Add-ons are chosen in Build your kit.

€79Chemistry kit only — supports, film, UV source and tools are selected separately.

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Compose your workspace

The printing chain, step by step. What the boxed set contains is marked, the rest can be added — or ticked “I already have it”.

Complete workspace

1/5 steps

Format

01 · Chemistry — included in this boxed set

11

4 pouches of pre-sensitised mixture, 350 ml each, ready to pour — nothing to add.

  • Cyan — pouch C

    PB15:3
  • Magenta — pouch M

    PR122
  • Yellow — pouch J

    PY155
  • Black — pouch N

    PBk7
  • VP N°03 — Developer

    500 ml
  • 1 complimentary PULPØ 900 gsm sheet

02 · Support

4
  • Coming soon

03 · Negative

1

04 · UV exposure

1

05 · Studio tools

1

Selection total

€79

1 × Aquaprint CMYK

What you can create

Process guide

Find the steps, practical advice and safety information for this process in its dedicated guide.

Read the process guide

Optional · Calibration

More consistent tones, print after print.

When you are ready to go further, Calibration Flow turns a chart printed with your process into a correction curve for your digital negative.

  1. Generate the chart
  2. Print it with your process
  3. Measure it with your camera

Optional: your first prints can be made without calibration.

Discover Calibration Flow

Aquaprint CMYK

€79

Learn more

The four-color Aquaprint rebuilds the image by superimposing four CMYK pigment layers, in direct lineage with the gum bichromate prints of Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo at the turn of the twentieth century. Each layer, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, is exposed 2 to 5 minutes, then cleared in 40 °C warm water that selectively dissolves the unexposed gum. The result marries the texture of cotton paper with soft, slightly faded colors typical of Pictorialist photography. Unlike the Sanguine and Monochrome variants, printed from a single separation negative, this kit handles precise registration of four successive layers and demands absolute geometric rigor at each application, layer after layer.

The VP reformulation completely removes potassium dichromate, a core component of historical gum printing, in favor of a pre-sensitized gum and CMYK powder pigments dosed via 1.25 to 15 mL measuring spoons. Application combines brush for texture and foam roller for uniformity, followed by development in diluted VP N°03 developer then clearing at 40 °C. The monochrome variants in the VP catalog require only one to three layers. Read the safety information for each product before preparing the colour passes.