Taming Fabriano Artistico (Trad. White) for Cyanotype
I have few questions about Fabriano Artistico Trad. White & Trad. Cyanotype: Is there anyone using this paper for Trad. Cyanotype? Do you pre-treat the paper before printing Cyanotype? I had a bad experience with Fabriano Artistico and New Cyanotype, therefore plan to acidify (or neutralize) the paper before printing Trad. Cyanotype. I remember someone's nice Cyanotype prints on Artistico but I'm not sure if it was the Trad. White or Extra White variant. I want a paper which is good for both Cyanotype and Gum -> I want for more dmax / punch with my color prints, therefore want to use Cyanotype as the Cyan layer. BTW, any non staining / transparent M and Y primary pigment suggestions would be highly appreciated. As far as I can see, Schmincke PV19 is nice as Magenta but PY151 of the same brand has too much filler and kills the underlying layers by seriosly clouding them (despite being marketed as semi-transparent)... I plan to: 1. mix 0.5M (~50ml 35% HCl into water givin a final volume of 1000ml) HCl and 2. put the paper into it for not more than 10 minutes and 3. transfer the paper into salted water (to suck the HCl out of the paper by osmosis) few minutes 4. rinse it (flushing several times) in pH neutral tap water Do you think the above procedure is fine to get rid of the calcium carbonate buffer in the paper w/o disturbing it's integrity? Should I lightly size the paper after acid treatment in order to get a decent (contrasty and sharp) Cyanotype layer of will it work OK? Thanks in advance! Loris. P.S. I know I can try this and see for myself but I'm sure there are people already tried this before, so I'm trying to save time by not pursuing an lenghty but equally ineffective(?) procedure...
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