[Alt-photo] wrinkles

[Christina Anderson]

Dear All,

Not the ones on my face...

I encountered this "event" the first time ever while teaching a workshop at the Formulary this past week. I noticed on one student's prints these weird wavy lines that looked like when you expose paper while still damp and it unevenly is in contact with the negative. But that wasn't it. Finally a student was smart enough to discover the issue (not me!). The tissue sheets between pieces of inkpress were wrinkled, and so apparently when the negative was fresh from the printer and placed in between these, using them as interleaving sheets, the interleaving sheets puckered with the mild bit of moisture and then in turn produced uneven dry marks on the negatives. The following day I used a blow dryer on one sheet and it seemed to alleviate some of the marks but not quite.

Has anyone experienced this??? Is it just that a thicker substrate like Pictorico doesn't do it and this does? However, I have used Inkpress for a few years now and never ever noticed it. I am just so surprised I have been printing diginegs for 13 years and have never noticed this issue. However, I do let my negs dry face up on the counter for a half hour and then put them in plastic notebook sleeves. But last year I did store my negs in a box with these sheets when I didn't have neg sleeves with me...

I'm a bit worried that this is particular to ink press.

Here's a URL to click on to see the phenomenon.
Chris

http://christinaanderson.visualserver.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=1953


Christina Z. Anderson
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