[alt-photo] Re: Paper issues

[francis schanberger]

Last December, Daniel Smith had a crazy cheap price on Magnani Acquerello
Bright White Watercolor Paper, 140lb, 22" x 30" at 49 cents. I bought 25
sheets to try out and it is better than OK for cyanotype and Vandyke Brown
in regards to absorbing chemistry and time to coat. Just a little grainy on
some cyanotypes last week but no strange highlights getting lighter upon
drying.

They are now selling it for 3.00 a sheet but it might be worth an
experiment for some you struggling with paper changes.

-francis

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Diana Bloomfield
<dlhbloomfield at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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-----
> > From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
> > [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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