[alt-photo] Re: Getting started with gum dichromate printing

[Tom Kershaw]

Colin,

Your thoughts are more along my original lines, although I can see the 
perspective of both your points and Katherine's.

Tom

colin at colinflanarygraham.com wrote:
> On 4/8/2010 2:10 PM, Katharine Thayer wrote:
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>> Your question, however, raises another question in my mind:  if your ultimate
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> goal is to print color carbon, why start with gum?  This idea doesn't make sense
> to me.  Gum and carbon are quite distinct processes;  each has its own
> requirements and difficulties, so learning gum isn't a step toward mastering
> carbon, and taking on gum will involve some time and difficulty that will delay
> your getting started with carbon, if that's what you want to do.   You shouldn't
> take the time to learn gum unless you really want to do gum; if carbon is what
> you want to do, then it seems to me the most efficient way to get there is to
> start printing carbon.  There are specialized forums for carbon printers online,
> and maybe someone here could point you to them.   Not that I want to discourage
> anyone from doing gum, but I would never suggest gum as a first step toward
> something else.  Good luck,
>   
>> Katharine 
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> Not sure if this is what Tom is thinking but I started with gum as a springboard
> to color carbon, using gum mainly to get a my head around color workflows and
> profiles. My reasoning was that the results are more immediate with gum, the prep
> much less labor intensive, so it might help to arrive at an understanding of how
> a 3 or 4 color process 'adds up' with regard to pigment loads, curves, etc.
> before working with all the difficulties of color carbon.  Problem is I've grown
> to like gum so not sure if I'll ever make the step to color carbon. 
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