[alt-photo] Re: Paper issues

[Keith Schreiber]

Diana,

Did you try both sides of the COT320? In my experience, though I wouldn't call it grainy, one side is smooth and the other has a pebbly texture. My experience with Revere when it first became available was a disaster. Good news if that is resolved. Paper is such a fickle beast.

~ Keith


On Feb 9, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:

> Not related to Strathmore-- but speaking of paper, I recently ordered some COT320.  I was printing pt/pd on it, and the results were very grainy.  I was using a digital negative, so I re-did the negative-- thinking that might be the problem.  Still grainy.  So I printed the same thing on Arches Platine-- no problem at all.  I discovered an old sheet of COT320 I had, from a year or so ago-- and printed it on that.  It was perfect.  So-- this whole new batch of COT320 I got seems to be awful (for pt/pd).  I don't know if this is a permanent change, or I just got a bad batch.  It's very annoying when that happens.  On the other hand, I had recently purchased this Magnani Revere paper and printed some pt/pd on it-- and it was really so so nice-- now my favorite paper for pt/pd.  Haven't yet tried anything else on it.
> 
> Diana
> 
> On Feb 9, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Christina Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Eric,
>> You, know, at first I was incredulous that a paper manufacturer would not correct this problem, but then I think it isn't meant for wet media I suppose. It sure does print beautiful tones in VDB.
>> 
>> In the past I've been a paper snob, only using 22x30 sheets of the usual suspects, but in the last couple years I have decided to buy the normal block pads at art stores to see if they are equally good. Last year was  mostly a disaster doing that with argyrotype so I was expecting the same this year with VDB (I try to alternate between kallitype, VDB, and argyrotype when teaching) but Canson and Strathmore pulled through as being great paper choices.
>> 
>> I usually have a stack of Fabriano Artistico HP, Crane's Cover, Weston, Arches Platine, and Cot 320 on hand at all times which for me covers all processes I might need to do, but none of these are common stock at smaller art stores.
>> Chris
>> 
>> Christina Z. Anderson
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