Re: wiping KM73 polymer plates
Nancy, And I thought that I was the only one. I have two magnetic work areas one a qtr sheet pan for cookies, glued a piece of magnetic material to the bottom (brown side up) for washing out plates. The ink area is a piece of baltic birch. For inking and plate work, again brown side up. Get it at sign stores. or take one off some ones car or truck, as they go by. As MS would say 'its a good thing' ink is fun, messy but fun Jan Pietrzak From: Nancy Diessner <ndiessner@rcn.com> Date: 2007/02/07 Wed PM 05:09:24 CST To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: wiping KM73 polymer plates This discussion of the various steps in thephotopolymer process is very helpful. Todate, I've had contact with only asmall number of people who work with these plates (other than thestudents I'm teaching it to!), and the suggestions here have alreadyopened up interesting new options. Susan, you haven't written yet about wiping and printing the plates,but I did want to mention a few things: 1. You may know this already, but using a sheet magnet while you inkand wipe the plates makes wiping a breeze. The steel-backed platesstick to the magnet and stay put as you ink and wipe. 2. The ink I use for these plates has been a mixture of equal partsGraphic Chemical Bone Black, Stiff Black, and Transparent Base. I'venow started adding a bit of Graphic Chemical Gel (nontoxic) that makesthe ink more gooey and brings out more subtle tonal variations in theplate. For some images I've made it so gooey I've had to almost pour iton the plate (for plates I've heavily altered by hand). It's made a bigdifference for me. Others? Nancy SusanV wrote:Jon and Jan, Thanks for the info about papercutters. I've seen that mentioned, but I was thinking they were those heavy-duty $$$$ kinds used in printshops. I'll go dig out my old paper cutter. Actually, I've gotten better at using the draw knife, finding out that if I first start cutting from the polymer side of the plate with a "box cutter" blade, and get through all the gunk there to the metal, then flip it over and continue cutting from the back with the draw knife, it works much easier than going all from the back. That's got to be the longest sentence I've ever written. Like Rita said earlier... this group is such a treasure. Thanks for all the help! susan www.dalyvoss.com
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