RE: Unknown area in Gum printing?
My typical gum exposures are 4 minutes when using *plain paper* negatives (w/o oiling)! (Sensitizer is 25% AD though...) The resulting layer is not weak and can withstand spray development. Regards, Loris. -----Original Message----- From: Don Bryant [mailto:dsbryant@bellsouth.net] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:44 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: Unknown area in Gum printing? Michael, You should know better, attachments shouldn't be sent to the list! :) 14 minute exposures! Wow that's seems like a long time and I thought my UV printer was slow. Don Bryant From: Michael Koch-Schulte [mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:03 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca Cc: gonsaj@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: Unknown area in Gum printing? Jacek, Where's the Stouffer stepwedge you shot with these test prints? You do own a Stouffer wedge r-i-i-i-ight? ^) Until you shoot that you have no idea if you're getting the correct dMax in the print. I routinely shoot my gums at 14 minutes for many, but not all colours. The time used is based on how they test with the wedge. Also, if you're calibrating your negatives using an imagesetter you might want to consider making a stock pigment/gum mix at this point and then adding equal amounts of potassium dichromate, gum and water to that. ~m
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