RE: Carbon on glass

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Marek Matusz wrote:

> Hey Cor, You are correct that back exposure is no go with BL tubes, the 
> image would be very diffused. I did use sugar in my carbon recipe since 
> most of the sources reccomend it, I am not sure if it is needed for 
> glass work.
Speaking of sugar, I'm curious if anyone here has ever tested with and 
without sugar.  I had several old formulas for gum printing that called 
for sugar, which my tests showed made no difference at all -- although 
perhaps with carbon it does, and it just got added to gum formulas out 
of habit, like the buggy whip on early autos?

???

J.