Re: ironing gum prints and other musings

[Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu>]

Ahhhhh, the old gum pigment test. Now that bring back a lot of 
memories from the past.

Just wondering, was there ever a consensus as to whether it actually 
works or not?

Sandy King







> At 3:20 PM -0400 5/3/08, Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> PS. The "literature" gives a fair sampling of the level of 
> mainstream publishers' books on "alt", as reviewed in various 
> Post-Factory's -- for instance Robert Hirsch's chapter on 
> alternative processes has some world-class idiocies, not from actual 
> testing or printing, but from mental telepathy while chewing on a 
> color chart.  Ditto for John Schaefer's "Ansel Adams Guide II" -- 
> IMAGINE: in the name of Ansel Adams (tho maybe it serves him right?) 
> as reviewed in an early P-F by John Rudiak & myself.... And those 
> are just the two that leap to mind.  (Something tells me I may have 
> mentioned the "gum-pigment ratio test" -- religiously cut and pasted 
> right down the line -- already.)
>
> PS.  Chris, who is  Sarah Vowell?
>
> J.