[alt-photo] Re: Sizing

[Tomas Sobota]

Johnny,

You probably meant to say "...once it's *dry* it curls up ..."?

Anyway, I work with Fabriano papers, among others, and I have never
experienced such a heavy curling as to make printing impossible. And I size
with a brush on one side of the paper only.

Try to follow Paul's advice and use the Fabriano without sizing, it perhaps
will work for you.

Tom

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Johnny Brian <limnidytis at netins.net> wrote:

> Thanks for everyones feedback. I'll try resizing the paper with gelatin
> and gluteraldehyde. I used the glyoxal because it came in the B&S kit. The
> gelatin/glyoxal does seem to slightly yellow the paper. I've also tried
> printing on Fabriano paper, but (for me) once it's wet it curls up like a
> potato chip and I can't flatten it enough for printing. I've also printed
> on Stonehenge and Lana in addition to the Arches and none of these curl
> like the Fabriano.
> Johnny Brian
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