Re: How many gum layers (Re: ferri sesquichlorati)

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Ender100@aol.com wrote:

> Katherine,
>
> You may be correct.  I think that matching the exposure scale of  
> gum with a negative that has the proper density range just puts you  
> closer...along with a good curve.  For tri-color this is probably  
> all that is  needed, or very close.  For other methods of printing,  
> I think it  would be helpful, but a person might still want to do  
> additional printings to get the effect they want.
>
> I don't remember Chris saying that doing so  would give the effect  
> of a Carbon print.
I  remember her not only saying that, but indeed challenging Sandy to  
a print shoot-out between carbon and gum, using the same image. But  
to be fair,  I also remember her backing off from that claim as the  
discussion went on.  I went back and looked at my own archives, to  
check my memory, but  I don't seem to have kept that discussion.  Her  
print when posted, I see from my archives, was compared with a  
platinum print rather than a carbon print, and it didn't provide much  
of a comparison to the platinum print, as I recall.  The URL is no  
longer active.
Katharine