Re: mystery paper

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

Judy,
You are right, any paper will do fine for gum...in fact, I had a student do 
tricolor on flimsy vellum because I told him it wasn't good for gum.  He 
proved me wrong :)

Henk told me it wasn't too good for tricolor but good for some layers, but 
mainly since I do solarplate I thought I would save it for that instead of 
gum since it seems designed for intaglio. In reading the description of the 
paper, it seems soft to me.

Also, I used to use Rives BFK for gum which I liked well enough, but still 
prefer Fabriano AEWHP to that, so if it ain't broke I guess I'm not gonna 
fix it.
Chris
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: mystery paper


> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
>
> > Yup, Jim and Henk solved it--it is Hahnemuehle!  Thanks.  I will not be 
> > using it for gum, then :)
> I'm curious Chris, why you say you won't be using Hahnemuhl for gum... 
> I've tried most of the Hahnemuhl papers and found most (or at least many) 
> of them good for gum (tho I haven't bought any lately because somehow I 
> over-diversified & have many others ready & waiting).
>
> My favorite was Merten Spiese, but I think the Copper whatever was good 
> too... I wasn't doing orthodox color sep, but the fake "real" color 
> approach, which shouldn't be that different, assuming you're using the 
> same colors.
>
> I shrink & gelatin size most paper for gum, but doesn't everybody? (In 
> fact I always figured if you shrink and size nicely & harden you can do 
> gum on just about anything, like shirt cardboard or the back of your 
> hand.)
>
> In any event, do please elucidate...
>
> TIA, & cheers,
>
> Judy