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

[Gareth Jarvis]

Thank you for the reply Diana and Chris. It's necessary to pre-acidify the magnani revere? Ideally I'm lookign for something that needs no pre-treatment aside from flushing with water to remove buffer. Might have to switch to acidification though.

Cheers,
Gareth 


> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 16:34:01 +0100
> From: christnze at gmail.com
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [Alt-photo] Re: Replacement paper for Arches Aquarelle
> 
> 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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