RE: How large without a preshrink?
Paul, I can't recall if this has been mentioned before but after printing the first layer I lay my coated paper on a light table and align the negative to the first image. It's also helpful to print registration marks if you are using a digital negative. With any luck I'll get this pin registration thing figured out and may start bonding my paper to aluminum sheets for precise registration. Don -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Magruder [mailto:altlist@scootermagruder.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:30 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: How large without a preshrink? I'm with Jeremy on this. Often (and this is in ref to doing gum layers atop a pt/pd print) times the registration need not be "perfect" as a little wiggle room isn't all that noticeable. One trick I use, and this may have been suggested before, is to steam the paper just before registering and taping down the negative. I do this with both Rives BFK and Fabriano Artistico ExWhite, works well when the registration is 1/8" or so off... I steam the back of the paper over a tea pot and slowly but surely it relaxes and stretches out to align ... tape it down, and put it in the UV box. Key is to not steam it too long that it causes the gum layer to get damp and ruin the neg... I've done this and it sucks, at which point I tear the negative in half and yell - much like Jeremy and Christina matt magruder On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Jeremy Moore wrote: > It depends on the image for me because some can afford quite a bit > more shift in registration while some images fall apart with the > slightest amount. Now I just preshrink for everything and not worry > about it. > >> On Nov 23, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote: >> >> Hi all... >> >> I was wondering among all your collective experience: How large can a >> multilayer gum print be made without a preshrink and without registration >> problems? >> >> Paul
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