Re: The case of the missing gelatin: Gum printing problem solved. Ithink.
Ha. Yeah, well, you would have been right. When all else fails,
blame the cat.
Diana
On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Mark Nelson wrote:
I was thinking days ago of suggesting the cat might be at fault but
thought that might be too much of a long shot.
Mark Nelson
www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com, PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups,
www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Diana Bloomfield
<dhbloomfield@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Well, here's a follow-up to all my gum printing woes. It got a
little warmer here a couple of days ago, so I decided to try
sizing some paper again. I have one of those little scales with
weights, so I can measure out my gelatin, etc, and since I'm the
only one using this, I usually just leave the weights in the
scale, which is located in what I thought was a safe and
inaccessible (to all but me) place in my darkroom. Well, I
started measuring out some gelatin, and I realized that one of the
weights (5 gram weight) was missing. I eventually found it, but I
realized I must have left the door open at some point, and one of
my cats must have been in there, found it, took it out and started
playing with it. So I wondered if that was the problem I was
having before with my printing. The weight must have been missing
before, and I hadn't noticed, and so I was using 5 grams less
gelatin than I normally use. I wouldn't think 5 grams would make
such a difference, but rather than size some fresh paper, I
decided to simply add some sizing (the 5 grams that was missing)
from that earlier batch that wasn't working. So, I did-- and the
gum prints I've made from that same paper, with the added gelatin,
now seem to be working fine.
So I'm thinking the missing 5 grams was the problem-- not the cold
air. Is that possible? I also sized some new paper a few days
later, in the same relatively cold air as before, and I've had no
problem with that paper, either.
I blame this all on the bad cat.
Diana
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