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
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> 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