Re: Gum prints with the enlarger

Claude Seymour (cseymour@CapAccess.org)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:08:11 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Pollmeier Klaus wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 10:06:20 +1000
> From: Pollmeier Klaus <100561.2417@CompuServe.COM>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <alt-photo-process@cse.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Gum prints with the enlarger
>
> Some time ago I wrote on the list, that Phillipe Berger from Belgium had found a
> way to sensitize paper for gum dichromate printing so it can be exposed with an
> ordinary enlarger - directly from a 35mm negative. However he does not want to
> reveil his secret without some financial equivalent. He now wrote to me that he
> is willing to send a booklet (22 pages) for 600,-- DEM (400 USD), in which he
> explains this process, as well as his approach to tricolor gum and the Sury
> Color process, which he reinvented. The fee would include a demonstration (in
> french) of his gum process for a group of max. 5 persons at his home in
> Comblain-au-Port, Belgium.
>
> It was not clear to me yet, wether every new user of the process would have to
> pay this sum, or wether this would be his *daguerrian* pension for making the
> process available to all of us...
>
> Anybody interested or any comments?
>
> Klaus Pollmeier
>

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Claude Seymour