Re: Print Dryers
Bob, Does the heat drying of sensitised (Australian spelling) papers result, in your opinion, in one grade more or less contrast? I use a hair dryer, as Dan mentioned he grew sick of but have not been made aware by any of my lessons in and reading of the Pt/Pd process about an effect on contrast. Jon PS: My first post/response to the list! 2008/7/12 Dan Burkholder <fdanb@aol.com>: > The print dryer that Jon Edwards sells (www.eepjon.com) uses a gentle and > controllable heat that circulates over the prints. I use it to dry coated > prints but and wouldn't use it for drying washed prints given its > contamination with coating dust and such but there no reason it wouldn't > make a swell dryer for washed prints if you used it for just that task. The > dryer I have is actually his prototype and it has been working wonderfully > for about 12 years. I sure don't miss waving a hair dryer back and forth all > day long. ;^) > Hope this helps, > Dan > info@DanBurkholder.com > www.DanBurkholder.com > On Jul 11, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Schuyler Grace wrote: > > Is anyone on the list using a heated print dryer (Premier or Arkay, for > example) to dry Pt/Pd or other alt prints? I was considering buying one to > replace and/or augment air drying on screens, but I leery of anything that > uses heat on a print, dry mount presses included. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Schuyler > > = -- http:www.sharperstill.com
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