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

Aquaprint Mono: one black pigment pouch, VP N°03 Developer and one complimentary PULPØ sheet. Add-ons are selected separately.

€69Chemistry 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

1 pouch of pre-sensitised mixture, 350 ml, ready to pour — nothing to add.

  • 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

€69

1 × Aquaprint Mono

What you can create

Process guide

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

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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 Mono

€69

Learn more

The Monochrome Aquaprint pursues the visual signature of British and French Pictorialism from the early twentieth century: deep blacks, soft transitions, paper texture visible through the pigment. Pure carbon black, applied in only 1 to 2 layers of VP gum, produces a velvety density that industrial silver gelatin processes never managed to reproduce. Unlike the warm Sanguine or the CMYK four-color, this kit aims for the pure plasticity of black on 640 gsm cotton paper. It is also the most economical subset of the Aquaprint family in terms of passes, therefore the fastest route to the final print while keeping the recognizable gum print signature intact.

The VP formulation pairs the pre-sensitized gum with a finely ground carbon black pigment, applied with a wide brush to preserve the gestural mark. Exposure 2 to 5 minutes per layer, development in diluted VP N°03 developer, clearing at 40 °C: standard Aquaprint protocol, but reduced to a maximum of 1 or 2 passes. Where VP four-color printing requires millimetric registration across four layers, the Monochrome tolerates approximate registration and remains accessible to the intermediate practitioner. It is free of potassium dichromate; follow the safety information for the products you use.