[alt-photo] Re: Gum Printing: Looking for some wisdom

[Darkrooms, Department of Art]

Hello all,

I am reporting back with the tests I made last Friday.  I was going to mix
new Ammonium Dichromate, but I did not have a new bottle.  So, I decided
to retest my original test of Ammonium Dichromate.  You can view the tests
here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93779173@N03/sets/72157632974249458/

I think that I now have a good jumping off point with these tests.  This
week I hope to work on the calibration of the QuadTone Rip negative.

Thank you for your help!
Best,
Jennifer Gioffre
Teaching Support Specialist

Architecture Art and Planning
Cornell University
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Ithaca, NY 14853
 
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On 3/7/13 1:56 PM, "Kees Brandenburg" <workshops at polychrome.nl> wrote:

>Hi Jennifer,
>
>As we are talking about gum, let's not forget this variable. What gum
>arabic do you use? Premixed or self mixed, and at what concentration and
>baumé? I'm using a 14-14,5 baumé self mixed gum. This is about 26-26,5%
>
>Looking at your exposure times for cyano and van dyke, compared to mine
>(6 and 4min) I would say that you would end up somewhere around 10
>minutes with your bank of UV and normal gum sensitivity. I find your
>pigment concentration rather low. With 'normal' strenght gum I am using 1
>gram per 20ml gum for winsor blue and lamp black on gelitin/glut sized
>paper and never see any stain.
>
>With dichromate I'm a 'replenisher'. When the bottle seems to empty with
>a coming workshop or project, I make some new and fill the bottle up.
>From time to time it stands for several weeks or more.
>
>kees
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