Re: gum substrate.
Richard, Hi
I was interested to read your posting on the use of substrates in the making of
gum prints. Irving Penn's aluminium sheeting for platinum prints came to mind.
When I started my experiments in gum printing more than twenty years ago I found
that if I used a heavy paper under heavy glass during exposure, I did not need
to use extra means of achieving registration through a number of prints. There
are now ways of avoiding having to size or stretch the paper or use substrates.
When there is little reliable information available one finds one's own way of
doing things.and one continues using that method until there is incontravertible
proof that something better is available. I have worked in the same way.
Did you change your mind over the substrate method or do you still consider that
it has advantages over other approaches.
Terry King