580 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [SEPTEMBER 14, 1883. LUXOTYPE. We have the pleasure of placing before our readers an ex ample of Luxotype, the photo-typographic process of Messsrs. Brown, Barnes, and Bell, of which our readers have heard a good deal of late. The picture resembles in many respects, in its finished aspect at least, the results furnished by the Ives’ process, of which we have given examples both in the columns of the News and in the Year-Book. As a photo-mechanical process, Luxotype is not yet in a perfected condition, and Messrs. Brown, Barnes, and Bell promise, before many weeks have passed, to produce printing-blocks from photographic negatives far superior to the one from which our print to-day is taken. There is very little reason to doubt this, and certainly it speaks well for the energy of the firm that they have brought matters thus far. As we stated last week, already photo pictures by the Luxotype process have appeared in daily papers in Liverpool and Bradford, and although the prinis cannot yet compete in clearness and vigour with the ordinary wood-cut, the former possesses the eminent qualification of truth. The problem of producing from photographs printing blocks that may be machined with type in the ordinary printing press, is one that is attracting the attention of many practical men just now, and very shortly we shall show examples of other inventors. In the meantime, we would point out that progress in this particular branch of photography is exceedingly slow. The example we pub lished the other day by the Bretsch process, which was produced twenty-three years ago, has not, so far as we have seen, been materially excelled by any photo-typo graphical pictures of later days, although Mr. Dallas’ well- known photo-blocks, which have appeared in the Garden with tolerable regularity since 1872, may be instanced as one of the best commercial method at present before the public.