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Re: Gum & the commercial ?



Thanks Sandy, when you mention the names I recognise the "trend".

And it answers some underlying, harder to formulate, thoughts I had too :-)


On 10/29/06 4:33 AM, "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu> wrote:

> Yes, in the first couple of decades of the 19th
> century there were many commercial gum and direct
> carbon papers, including Hochheimer, Papier Noir
> Gomme, Charbon Velours, Fresson, etc. The exact
> ingredients of these papers is not know but it is
> though that most contained gum along with another
> colloid, probably gelatin.
> 
> Sandy King
> 
> 
> 
> At 4:05 AM +0900 10/29/06, Halvor Bjørngård wrote:
>> Has gum printing ever been commercial ?
>> 
>> (carbon, pt/pd & others was at some or several points part of the commercial
>> market, but don't think I have seen any references like that for gum .. Yes
>> I know, commercial can be interpreted a couple of ways, but..)
>> 
>> Feels like a pretty significant question 3:50 in the morning :-)
>> 
>> Halvor