[Alt-photo] Re: wrinkles

[Christina Anderson]

Diana 
This is why I am so surprised, because in 10+ years of printing out diginegs it has never happened. But when I think of it, Pictorico does not come with interleaving sheets. However, I have used Inkpress before, probably two boxes of 50 all told. The environment here is SO dry generally and it must be that I never put the negative in contact with the interleaving tissue immediately. Once it's dry no problem I would suppose.

I checked to make sure the sheets were not that way before printing and they are not. You could see on the back of the printed negative the milkiness in waves.

I am glad I shared this on this list because with group-think we now have a clear answer whereas before I was really going to blame Inkpress and then be mistaken.

Mary, I bet it's the same thing. I could tell it was from the interleaving sheets because the waves followed the sheet exactly.

At the Formulary it is usually very dry but it was quite humid (for Montana that is!) this time.
Chris

Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Aug 12, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:

> I don't think I've ever had that happen, but I can see how it would.  I mostly use Pictorico, mainly because those seem to be able to withstand constant use better.  I had not tried Inkpress in a while, because when I used that brand before, every third negative came out damaged.  But I used a box recently, and I was impressed by how much they've improved over what they used to be.  They seemed slightly thicker, and every one was perfect-- like Pictorico.  But I get these books with clear acetate(?) sleeves in them-- at Jerry's-- when they go on sale, and store mine there.  Admittedly, I sometimes just put them in the flat file drawer with nothing protecting them at all, except the darkness.  They seem fine-- but I'm getting more organized and placing them in these books now. ;)
> 
> So does this happen, because they're stored immediately after printing, and so the ink is not completely dry?  Or is this even before printing-- from humidity-- or something?