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

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hi Gareth,

No-- I've never had to pre-acidify that paper, but I've not had a problem clearing it, either. In fact, for me, it's been one of the easiest to clear.  I always always had a problem clearing COT320, and as much as I like Arches Platine, that takes a lot to clear, too (for me).  But-- yes-- I'm totally with you on escaping the pre-treatments.

Diana

On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Gareth Jarvis wrote:

> 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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