[alt-photo] Re: platinum

[Marek Matusz]

Here is another something on palladium/platinum papers.
 

A couple of months ago I acid treated some Fabriano Artistico sot press. My acid treatment was HCl (hydrochloric or muratic acid). Very inexpensive from pool supply store. This treatment completely removes carbonate buffer leaving just pure paper. I have to say it is one of the best palladium papers that I have used in a while. This treated Fabriono resembles COT 320 in many ways. Beautiful DMAX, and just the right absorbency. Because of the pretreatment (in the old days I would call it pre-shrinking, but now to me it is just getting it wet and do the shrinking /stretching that it wants) step it is very easy to do a gum over the palladium layer.
 
Marek