[alt-photo] Re: Preshrinking paper for gum?

[Diana Bloomfield]

Yeah-- in fact, the paper I now use offers much better registration (with no pre-shrinking) than the papers I would painstakingly pre-shrink.  Go figure. 

 (Sorry, Frannie- I've mentioned the paper many times before, and I always get the sense people think there's something seriously wrong with that method of cutting out steps-- way too easy if you don't have to pre-shrink and size-- so I never mention it anymore)-- but just for you-- I will.  It's  Fabriano soft-press.  The nearly-perfect paper (for gum printing) in my opinion. :)

On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Denny wrote:

> Diana, thanks, "almost seemed pointless" pretty much sums up what I found.
> 
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> Hey Denny,
> 
> I don't shrink paper anymore--- with the paper I now use-- but back when I
> did (and I never did real tests on it like you)-- I realized, at some point,
> that the temperature of the water didn't really seem to matter much.   And
> really hot water seemed to offer bad results-- bad things happened with
> really hot water.   Also, no matter how much I left it in water--
> registration was still never perfect-- so it almost seemed pointless.  And
> then I discovered the perfect paper that required no pre-shrinking (up to a
> certain size), and no sizing-- so I put it all out of my head after that. ;)
> 
> Diana
> 
> On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Denny wrote:
> 
>> Folks, I did some simple testing to try to evaluate how to shrink 
>> paper, details here:
>> 
>> http://www.dennisspector.com/technotes/preshrink.html
>> 
>> I was surprised by the results, and I'm wondering if anyone else has 
>> looked at this closely, what did you find?  Any noticeable effects of 
>> water temperature?  Amount of shrinking?  (I'm sure these vary with 
>> different papers, and I know some papers may not require any 
>> preshrinking.)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Denny
>> 
>> 
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