Re: solarplate wedgies

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:37 AM, wcharmon@wt.net wrote:

> I noticed the problem when printing palladium from diginegs on the new
> 'improved' Pictorico Ultra. The back (non-inked) side was giving me  
> some
> interference patterns that would occasionally be noticeable  in  
> smoother
> toned areas of my prints. The old stuff did not do this.
I've had the same problem once or twice with the inkjet film I use,  
which I buy from filmsource and so don't have a specific name for.   
When I did have the problem, it was connected to printing before the  
film  had dried enough after printing.  Not the ink, but the film  
itself.  The film isn't dry enough, or maybe that it's not cool  
enough, and the warmth causes condensation of the glass; at any rate  
there's  moisture that caused this Newton ring-like thing (but not  
the usual Newton rings, which isn't a function of moisture) between  
the back of the negative and the glass.   I found that a combination  
of drying the back of the negative with a blow-dryer and adding a  
puff of talc (I do it the same way Judy does, with a puff bottle.  A  
little poof of talc upward, let it settle, and that's all you need)  
took care of the problem.

Katharine