Theo Gray's Most Beautiful Element Photos
make his posters unique
The images on his posters come from his library of over a thousand element samples, many collected or re-photographed specially for posters. A few highly unstable elements, however, show a picture of the person or place after which the element is named, or a mineral that contains trace amounts of the element.
Notes on the hiqh quality printing
These posters are printed from a 1.4GB image file with a resolution of 520 dpi (at 53" wide) on a MAN Roland 900XXL 73in. sheetfed offset press, the first of its kind installed in the US. Stochastic dithering (instead of conventional halftone screening) results in a razor-sharp image, aided by the high registration accuracy of the press. Theo states, ¨Frankly I was amazed when I saw the first sheets off the press: I didn't know it was possible for mass-production printing to look this good.¨
