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Re: gum question




On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, henk thijs wrote:

Hi Judy,
Preshrinking in 'not-hot-water' reminds of the discussion some time ago about the large gumprints made by Jean Janssis, belgian gum printer ( he can be found in musea all over the world); when i asked him about preshrink , he said he did not sized after two times of preshrinking in -cold- water , and he did not have any registering problems he said.
Any luck on the list with this method?; it did not work for me.
Henk>
Henk, sometimes I'm not as smart as you think I am (thank you!) That is, it isn't clear to me exactly what this fellow did. Do you mean he preshrank twice in cold water and didn't re-size? If so, did he add a size *before* those soaks? Were they two preshrinks in a row, or was there a gum coat and development between them?

In any event, I'm going to check the last couple of P-F's right now, to see what details I recorded at the time...

J.