[alt-photo] Re: to shrink or not to shrink (registration)

[Diana Bloomfield]

Thanks, Paul.  (I'm trying to get up to at least 10 posts here today.   
Can you tell?)  Your most exciting result is not having to pre-shrink.  
My one coat is drying now, so I'm interested to see how that works for  
me-- in terms of registration. I do like the way a paper looks and  
feels without pre-shrinking first, though.  I think the resulting  
images are ultimately sharper, too.

Diana

On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> Diana,
>
> Even when I use Fab EW leftover from pt/pd printing, I notice no  
> stain until the 3rd layer, which is actually its 4th soak (first  
> soak is in oxalic acid solution to prepare for that process).
>
> Even Keith Taylor, who bonds his paper to aluminum and does not  
> size, is able to print 3 rich tricolor layers and not experience  
> stain.
>
> BTW, I printed a red layer on my print but didn't expose quite long  
> enough, the sun is hazy today. So all I got was a slightly warmer  
> color overall and still perfect registration, but no stain.
>
> I may continue to press my luck with another layer and maybe even  
> more posts ;-)
>
> Thanks all...
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Bloomfield" <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net 
> >
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> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:47 PM
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: to shrink or not to shrink (registration)
>
>
>> Hey Paul.  At the risk of racking up too many posts here-- I just   
>> wanted to let you know that I took one of my pieces of Rives,  
>> right  out of the flat file (no pre-shrinking or sizing), and I've  
>> done only  one coat now--  but there was no staining, though I did  
>> have to leave  it in the water far longer than I normally do.    
>> I'll let you know  what happens when I try a second coat.  Even  
>> though there's no  staining with this one coat-- I do miss having  
>> that slight sheen from  the PVA, so I might just stay with the  
>> PVA-- but I'm gonna finish this  one out for any registration/ 
>> staining problems with subsequent layers.
>>
>> Thanks again for your updates/results.
>>
>> Diana
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Diana...
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't size and I didn't preshrink. Paper is 10 x 11 inches,    
>>>>> image size is approx 6 x 6 inches, give or take.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a scan after 2 layers, indigo and then raw sienna,  
>>>>> waxed   paper neg.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/4454749196/
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know what you think...anything at all!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thx..Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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