[alt-photo] Re: thick vellum for pt/pd

[Francesco Fragomeni]

DO NOT purchase from Light Impressions. It is just an all around very bad
idea. Not to turn this into another "Stay Away from Light Impressions"
topic, but caution must be had when dealing with them in any way. A simple
google search will turn up pages upon pages from the last year and a half
reporting their fraudulent activities. I can speak from first hand
experience to how criminal they can be. I also have two letters from the
California Attorney General's Office regarding their inter-state fraudulent
activity. Even if you call them to confirm that they have something, most
of the time if you can get someone on the phone they'll tell you they have
it and then eventually you'll lean that is is perpetually backordered and
you'll never receive the product or a refund. If by chance they have what
you need you'll still need to exercise extreme caution in giving them your
credit card information because they have been known to make charges to
customer cards that relate to no purchases. They will even disguise the
charges under the name of another company. In my case, they charged me
under the name of a luggage and leather goods company that is also owned my
the company that owns Light Impressions.

That's as far into it as I'll go here as this thread does not belong to me
or this topic, if you need more information it'll all over the Internet. I
just really don't want any of you to get burned by making the mistake of
dealing with Light Impressions.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program....

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Denny <dspector at charter.net> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll check it out.  I've recently done OK with Light Impressions by
> calling first to see if things are actually in stock.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
> [mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf
> Of
> kerik at kerik.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:06 AM
> To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: thick vellum for pt/pd
>
>  I hate to recommend Light Impressions because they suck so much these
> days,
> but their HeatTac product is pure white. At least the roll I've had for
> many
> years is.
>
>
> http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/heattac-low-temp-mounting-tissue-sheet
> -8x10-100-pkg/heat-activated-mounting-adhesives/
>
> -Kerik
> www.kerik.com
>
> > It seems to dry mount OK, but I'm still looking for a bright white dry
> > mount tissue to use with it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
> > [mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On
> > Behalf Of Marek Matusz
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:16 AM
> > To: alt photo
> > Subject: [alt-photo] Re: thick vellum for pt/pd
> >
> >
> > Transvel is available in different weights and a while back I got
> > samples of
> > them. They all print palladium nicely with rich blacks. The heavy
> > grade
> > vellum looks so good when you take it out of the box, but I found it
> > impossible to end up with a smooth print. No matter what I tried it
> > would
> > always dry wavy and uneven. Actually the thinner the vellum the
> > easier it is
> > for me to dry it to a flat and smooth surface.
> > ANy tricks that I have not tried?
> > Marek
> >
>
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