[Alt-photo] Re: VERDICT ON FUMED SILICA?

[Robert Hall]

As long as I coat the paper evenly, the print certainly has better contrast
and d-max.


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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, clay harmon's personal website email
account <clay at clayharmon.com> wrote:

> I've been using sulfamic for buffer neutralization on my palladium prints
> for the last month. It works very well, even on heavily buffered papers
> like Fabriano Extra White. I am getting measured Dmax values of 1.4 or
> better on all the papers I have tried so far  (Rives BFK, Twinrocker,
> Moulin de Gue and Whatman's Printmaker). I am not as happy with it as the
> only clearing agent - I seem to still have some residual ferric oxalate in
> the paper if sulfamic acid is the only clearing agent I use. But  a regimen
> of a first bath of disodium EDTA followed by two baths of Hypoclear with
> Tetrasodium EDTA added to it seems to work extremely well.
>
> My experience with fumed silica has been mixed. It works very well on some
> papers (twinrocker in particular), but not as well on others. I am getting
> richer prints on Fabriano Extra White using the sulfamic acid approach than
> when I used the fumed silica.
>
> -Clay
> On May 30, 2013, at 3:00 PM, "BOB KISS" <bobkiss at caribsurf.com> wrote:
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> > DEAR LIST,
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> >            Is the jury in with a final verdict on using fumed silica to
> > increase Dmax of pt/pd prints?
> >
> > *****And now, the Touchstone question:  How many of you actually use it
> when
> > you print pt/pd (or any other alt processes)?
> >
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