Re: ironing gum prints and other musings

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

> Incidentally, Chris, we may both be thinking of the same fellow who
> shrank the paper with a hair dryer until it was the right size.  I recall 
> an article in one of the photo magazines that described it... just reading 
> about it made me want to do everything left-handed and blind-folded.
You're absolutely right about this article--if I could get out from under 
end-of-the-semester stacks of papers I could tell you his name and when 
published but I think it is Collins perhaps.
> Incidentally #2 -- who was it said they pasted the paper to plexi with 10% 
> gelatin... was that you Chris?
Not me...

> However, in my experience, if you coat your paper with the 
> pigment/gum/dichromate mix when it's too wet, it will sink so far into the 
> paper that it will never never never ever clear... tho maybe that fellow 
> wasn't actually making prints, just shrinking the paper (?).
> Judy
To me, his method was a bit odd, because why not wet the dry print on the 
back and let it expand instead of shrinking a wet print?  It just seemed a 
bit backwards.
Chris