Re: Gum prints with an enlarger (UV loss)
Hans Nohlberg (chiahans@tripnet.se)
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:57:45 +0200
On Sat 13 Jan Carson Graves wrote
>By chance, I happened to have access to a vacuum easel that was left
>over from someone's attempt to do dye transfer. This was a professional
>dye transfer easel (made by Condit, I guess - lots of $), but in
>principle it shouldn't be hard to fabricate on your own. Anyway, this
>was the type of easel that had concentric grooves cut into it for the
>vacuum that corresponded to the standard paper sizes. This is designed
>to hold the paper flat at the edges rather than lots of little holes
>all over that would end up showing in the image. The vacuum comes from
>a single point in the groove (you could apply vacuum to any single
>groove by moving the tube from the pump, but the point was to only use
>the size groove that fit the exterior dimensions of your paper. I
>realize that this is a sketchy description, it is really simple. If
>there is interest, I'll try to do an ascii drawing and post it, but it
>will take time.
>
We are interested - and can wait:>))
Hans & Chia