[alt-photo] Re: Paper issues

[Diana Bloomfield]

Okay.  Thanks, Bob.  I'll do that.

Diana
On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:08 PM, BOB KISS wrote:

> DEAR DIANE,
> 
> 	Please contact John Horowy at sales at bergger.com at Bergger USA to
> give him as much information as you can regarding your bad experience with
> grainy PT/PD prints on COT 320.  I have a large show of PT-PD prints coming
> up and need to know that the 40 sheets of 20X24 COT 320 I will buy will be
> O.K.  Can't return things from Barbados to the US...too expensive both in
> money and time.   
> 
> *****I think there were others on the list who replied that they had the
> same problem recently.  Please also contact John to bring him up to speed.
> I hope we can resolve this issue ASAP.  I rely upon COT 320 nearly as much
> as "...ah relahhh upahhn the kahhhndness ah strangahhhs!"  (Blanche Dubois
> in Tennessee William's STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE).  LOL!!!
> 
> 				CHEERS!
> 					BOB
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf Of
> Diana Bloomfield
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 12:40 PM
> To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
> Subject: [alt-photo] Paper issues
> 
> 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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