Re: Dry mounting gum prints

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

Don,
I drymount all of mine and never have a problem with the press ruining my 
gums, even when I did a test one time and heated it up over 250 and left the 
gum in for a while.  You could always practice this on a throwaway and prove 
me right or wrong, but oh yeah, I remember, you don't have any throwaway 
gums, do you :) heheheheh
Chris

> I curious if anyone ever dry mounts their gum prints? I'm going to give it 
> a
> go shortly but I'm wondering what effect the heat from the dry mount press
> will have on the hardened emulsion.
> I know that Keith Taylor dry mounts his paper to aluminum sheets to 
> maintain
> dimensionally stability to insure registration for large tri-color prints.
> But I believe he uses Seal Fusion tissue (a lower temp tissue) so that the
> paper can be reheated to release it from the aluminum when the printing is
> finished. My press will be set to about 180F.
Thanks,
Don Bryant