RE: How many gum layers (Re: ferri sesquichlorati)
Mark,
Why my
interest in curves? I just gave my first first gum workshop in Istanbul
(actually Loris gave it - I was just there helping him to figure out what to
say..) But the workshop went well, and the joy on the participants faces
when they made their first gum prints was quite rewarding. Infectious,
really. I may wish to do more workshops in the future, and so I'm open to
methods that don't rely so heavily upon power washers, air grinders, belt
sanders, etc. And let's face it: I have to know curves because
a certain clever person I know has made their proprietary curve-making process a
fixture that no alt-process can do without. So call it keeping up
with the times! But the fact is, my lith neg approach would have
been too complicated for the workshop, so we used straight non-curved baby-oiled
inkjet on plain-paper negs. They worked pretty good, but there clearly was
room for improvement if one were looking for single-coat gums.
But
back to being a maverick, because knowing how to use curves and being able to
afford using them are two different things. I just learned this morning
that it costs $1-2 per square foot for ink on the 7600 that I have
my eye on. Say WHAT? That is expensive, given I like big
prints.
I've been out of the inkjet circuit for years. I
have no need for archival inks. For that matter, I have no need for even
GOOD ink. Other than rendering a printer useless for anything else, is
there any reason I couldn't get one of those continuous-feed systems and dump in
India ink or Sumi ink or something else? I'm serious. I just want to
print cheap ink onto cheap paper for the purpose of making cheap gum prints. The negative doesn't have to last more
than a day or so. In fact, I'd prefer if it didn't last! Are there any
cheap maverick-consistent alternatives that you can think of employing?
Keith
I don't suppose....
no...
OK, what if one were to just load the printer up with
gum emulsion? Any chance that would work? Run some paper thru the
printer and throw it under the sun? Forget the whole negative
entirely? hehehehe
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From: Ender100@aol.com [mailto:Ender100@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:11 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: How many gum layers (Re: ferri sesquichlorati) Hi Keith,
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