[Alt-photo] Re: Replacement paper for Arches Aquarelle

[Christian Nze]

Diana

The Magnani revere I've got in France is sometime perfect and sometime
impossible to clear if do not pre acidify it. There are great variation
bewteen batches

chris



2014-02-06 16:08 GMT+01:00 Diana Bloomfield <dlhbloomfield at gmail.com>:

> Hi Gareth,
>
> I've mentioned this before, but I think Magnani Revere is one of the best
> papers I've ever used for pt/pd printing.  I've also used Arches Platine
> with no major issues-- but I've found Revere more consistent and easier to
> clear.
>
> Diana
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Gareth Jarvis wrote:
>
> > Hi All, I've been having some clearing issues with Arches Aquarelle for
> a while now when platinum printing. I'm having to clear first in
> hydrocholoric and then EDTA to remove the remaining ferric. This is causing
> a discouloured mottling in the paper which is only evident while the print
> is wet and translucent or held up to light once it's dried. You can't
> observe it when the paper is dried otherwise. I was wondering whether
> anybody out there knows of a paper with similar characteristics I might
> change to that might fare better.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gareth
> >
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