Re: Rives BFK (was Re: Liquid Light)

Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:53:04 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Sam Wang wrote:
>
> Hate to contradict Judy, but I have been printing cyanotype as well as
> gum-over-cyanotype on Rives Heavyweight with great (well, good) results.

Sam, you're not contradicting me. I was speaking only of the BFK, and for
sure only the BFK *white*. This is, by the way, in the Daniel Smith catalog
(among other places), so someone who is NOT battered by elements might
look it up.

> Some people tell me that the HeavyWeight is the same as BFK, but I'm not

Some people say cool white fluorescents won't expose carbon! Some people
even say the earth is flat. (Try your pen on the BFK, Sam.)

> Wish paper manufacturers wouldn't succumb to such simplistic
> solution as buffering everything they make. Leonardo's drawings were not
> done on acid-free paper!

Well I don't think too many *papers* are buffered, but I would try not to
get buffered mat board or boxes for storing cyanotypes. I got an album for
my adorable little old cyanotype postcard collection, had to go to a
library source to get one that wasn't buffered, as Light Impressions
didn't have...

Judy