[Alt-photo] Re: buffer free paper

[Loris Medici]

Hi Diana,

One good thing about Masa's thinness is the fact that it clears incredibly
fast and well.

Regards,
Loris.



2013/12/10 Diana Bloomfield <dlhbloomfield at gmail.com>

> Yes-- I can't say enough good things about the Revere.  I've also used
> Masa, which works well for gum and cyanotype.  I've never used it for
> pt/pd.  I'll try it.   Like Loris said, it is very smooth (and very thin),
> inexpensive, and worked fine.  The only negative thing I can say about Masa
> is the relative thinness, and I felt the colors in my gum prints were
> actually a little too vivid and too bright for me.  That might be a
> positive for some, but because of the bright white base, I guess,
> everything was just too vivid-- too much.  Not really a negative, I guess,
> but it was for me. :)
>
> Diana
>
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Loris Medici wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> >
> > If a thin paper (70-80 gsm, but very strong up to 11x14" image size...)
> > won't put you off, Masa paper works *very nice* with *all* the iron (new
> > and trad. cyanotype, pt/pd...) and iron-silver (argyrotype, vandyke...)
> > processes. It's a very bright paper with a very smooth surface, and a
> > single 21x31" sheet cost only around USD 1.30-1.35. (I remember it was
> > 0.70/sheet once, I guess the price went up with increasing demand...)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Loris.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/10 Peter Friedrichsen <pfriedrichsen at sympatico.ca>
> >
> >> Just wondering if anyone has suggestions on unbuffered paper for
> platinum
> >> and cyanotype processes. I do not want to do the acidification step to
> >> remove buffers at this point. Any suggestions? If you live in the
> Toronto
> >> area and know who stocks it even better as I am a bit pressed for time.
> >>
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