{"id":568,"date":"2012-05-16T20:58:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=568"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","slug":"joseph-ulano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/joseph-ulano\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Ulano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Ulano (Ulanoff) (Jul 4, 1906 – Feb 24, 1992)<\/span> was a Kyiv, Russian immigrant who found work in screenprinting in New York. In the 1920s, he began improving the screenprinting process, especially in stencils. While working as a foreman at a New York-based screen printing shop in 1929, just before the Great Depression, Ulano developed a knife-cut stencil film which he patented as NuFilm. The stencil material was cut with a scalpel and applied to the mesh to produce prominent print patterns.<\/p>\n

The patent was contested by A. S. Danemon, who had held one-half of a U. S. Patent (US1,781,834), along with Louis F. D’Autremont – filed on May 6, 1929, and approved on November 18, 1930. Although there were considerable differences between the two patents, Ulano lost the verdict but won the right to become a licensee of the Profilm Company. He continued to sell both products, but since NuFilm was easier to cut and adhered better to the silk, it became the industry standard.<\/p>\n

Ulano founded the Ulano Company in 1931 to produce NuFilm, which became the industry standard for decades. Ulano continued to develop many other emulsions and products over the years, growing the Ulano Company into the largest integrated manufacturer of screenprinting stencils worldwide. Ulano also invented masking films (Rubylith\u00ae and Amerberlith\u00ae), formulated the first reclaimable, 100% solvent and water-resistant emulsions, developed the first fast-exposing diazo resins, and introduced capillary films to the market, among other products.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has watched a movie where the screen slowly faded out of one image into another has Joe Ulano to thank. Joseph Ulano invented the Camera Dissolve in 1938 (Patented US2217718A on October 15, 1940). His device improved on other similar devices that were quite complicated and were built into commercial motion picture cameras. Ulano’s device was intended to be attached to the lens portion of a conventional amateur or commercial motion picture camera that did not have such a device. By attaching the Camera Dissolve onto a camera, the user could cause the image to fade in or out at will.<\/p>\n

In 1999, Ulano was acquired by a German-Swiss holding company that also owns Kissel + Wolf GmbH (KIWO), a manufacturer of screen printing consumables, adhesives, automatic coating machines, and computer-to-screen equipment.<\/p>\n

In 1990, Ulano was inducted into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Ulano (Ulanoff) (Jul 4, 1906 – Feb 24, 1992) was a Kyiv, Russian immigrant who found work in screenprinting in New York. In the 1920s, he began improving the screenprinting process, especially in stencils. While working as a foreman at a New York-based screen printing shop in 1929, just before the Great Depression, Ulano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}