SILVER BASED

Process Sensitizer/binder Image Inventor Year
Salt print Silver chloride/none Silver Talbot 1834
Albumen Silver chloride/albumen Silver Evrard 1850
Collodion Silver chloride/collodion Silver Simpson 1865
Print-out Silver chloride/gelatin Silver Mawdsley 1874
Ozobrom Silver bromide/gelatine
contact diffusion
Pigments Manly 1905
Bromoil Silver bromide/gelatine
dichromate bleach & harden
Litho Ink Piper & Wall 1907
Carbro Silver bromide/gelatine
contact diffusion
Pigment Farmer 1919

IRON-BASED

Process Sensitizer (Developer) Image Inventor Year
Argentotype Ferricitrate
(Dev: Silver nitrate)
Silver Herschel 1842
Vandyke
Brownprint
Sepiaprint
Ferricitrate+Silver nitrate
(Dev: water)
Silver Arndt &
Troost
1889
Kallitype Ferric oxalate + Silver nitrate
(Dev: Borax or Rochelle salt)
Silver Hunt
Nicol
1844
1889
Argyrotype Ferricitrate+Silver sulphamate
(Dev: water)
Silver Ware 1991
Cyanotype
Blueprint
Ferroprussiate
Ferricitrate+Ferricyanide
(Dev: water)
Prussian
Blue
Herschel 1842
New Cyanotype Ferrioxalate+ferricyanide
(Dev: dil. nitric acid)
Prussian
Blue
Ware 1992
Pellet Print Ferricitrate/tartrate
(Dev: Ferrocyanide+gum)
Prussian
Blue
Herschel
Pellet
1842
1878
Chrysotype Ferricitrate
(Dev: chloroaurate(III))
Gold Herschel 1842
New Chrysotype Ferrioxalate+gold(I) complex
(Dev: carboxylic acids)
Gold Ware 1987
Platinotype Ferric oxalate+chloroplatinite
(Dev: oxalate)
Platinum Willis 1873
Sepia Platinum Ferric oxalate+chloroplatinite
+Mercury(II) salts
(Dev: oxalate)
Mercury+
Platinum
Willis 1890
POP Platinum Sodium ferrioxalate + sodium chloroplatinite Platinum Pizzighelli 1887
Satista Ferric oxalate+silver chloride +chloroplatinite Silver+ Platinum Willis 1913
Palladiotype Ferric oxalate+chloropalladite
(Dev: oxalate)
Palladium Willis 1916
Amphitype Ferricitrate/ferritartrate +Mercury(II) salts Mercury Herschel 1842
Obernetter’s Ferrocupric Ferric chloride+cupric chloride
(Dev: thiocyanate)
(Tone: ferricyanide)
Cupric
Ferrocyanide
Obernetter 1864
Phipson’s Ferrioxalate
(Dev: permanganate)
Manganese
Dioxide
Phipson 1861
Ferrogallate
Colas
Blackline
Ferritartrate
(Dev: Gallic acid)
Ferric
Gallate
Colas 1860
Heliographic
Nakahara’s
Ferritartrate
(Dev: Tannic acid)
Ferric
Tannate
Nakahara 1894


CHROMIUM BASED

Process Sensitizer/Colloid Image Inventor Year
Gum Bichromate Dichromate/gum arabic Pigment Poitevin 1855
Carbon (direct) Dichromate/gelatine Pigment Poitevin 1855
Carbon Transfer Dichromate/gelatine Pigment Fargier 1860
Fresson Dichromate/colloid Pigment Fresson 1899
Oil print Dichromate/gelatine Litho Ink Rawlins 1904
Ozotype Dichromate/gelatine Pigment Manly 1899
Gum-Ozotype Dichromate/gum arabic Pigment Manly 1899